[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Ambrose Bierce

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Ambrose Bierce
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   Pre-Adamite, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory
   race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily
   conceived. Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to
   have been something intermediate between fishes and birds. Little its
   known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and
   theologians with a controversy.

   (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, c. 1911)