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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: the race expanded. For personal locomotion no external aid was
used, since in land, air, and water movement alike the Old Ones
seemed to possess excessively vast capacities for speed. Loads,
however, were drawn by beasts of burden - Shoggoths under the
sea, and a curious variety of primitive vertebrates in the later
years of land existence.
These vertebrates, as well as an infinity
of other life forms - animal and vegetable, marine, terrestrial,
and aerial - were the products of unguided evolution acting on
life cells made by the Old Ones, but escaping beyond their radius
of attention. They had been suffered to develop unchecked because
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