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CONCLUSION

I have tried to give you some reason to support the general view that:—

Mr. Watkins’ alignments of the ancient sacred sites exist; that old and still existing roads conform (at any rate in parts) to these alignments; but that these alignments were not laid out (originally) for the purpose of marking the Way for travellers, but are the remaining index of some great geometrical arrangement of these sacred sites, which seems to extend over a very wide area. What the purpose of this arrangement was is a problem for the future; but it seems to me that it was connected with the practice of the Ancient Wisdom, which we know so little about, but which was bound up with what we call “Religious Worship.” The scientific knowledge which was bound up with this was lost, in very far-off days, after a gradual decline into the more recent times which we regard as “barbarous,” but which is being recovered, by different methods, in these our own times.

I am not prepared to go into any detail of the nebulous ideas that might occur to me at present of what it all means. But it is a most fascinating line of investigation.

A remarkable confirmation of this theory is given in a letter recently received by me from Dr. Heinsch, a German geographer, who read a paper at an International Congress at Amsterdam in 1938. His conclusions are strikingly close to mine, and he evidently wishes to pursue the subject in co-operation with students in other countries (Appendix II).