Reprinted from HIGH TIMS MAGAZINE, December 1982

During his terrestrial years Henry Marshall lived in Southern America -- just at the time of its emergence. His youthful experiments with Neurotransmitters activated post-human circuits which he first developed to Neurobiology -- a science which he, indeed, founded. Marshall was the first Human Ethologist who described human development in terms of neurogenetic stages.

While waiting for the primitive psychology of the 20th century to catch up with him, Marshall turned to documentary film-making. Here again his futique nervous system broke new ground. His movies,  the first to trace human metamorphic stages, became classics and quickly became the basis for neurologic training in primary grades for all children in Dom-Species cultures. His films on the sociology of space colonies contributed enormously to the popular realization of the post-terrestrial migration.

Henry Marshall became the first president of the FeMan Ethology Association, and in 2011 founded the first Inter-World Educational Network. He and his mate Susan spent the latter part of the 21st century shuttling among the eleven H.O.M.E.S. of which they were revered citizens. In 1978, to explain migration from the old planet to High Orbital Mini Earths (H.O.M.E.S.), it was necessary to continually remind Americans that their fore-mothers and forefathers had done it before!

The Bawdy Pilgrims
by Henry Marshall

The passengers on the Mayflower were not stern, straight-laced, middle-aged religious zealots. The stuffy ones were Puritans, and they remained in Britain, protesting what they considered to be the liberal ways of the Church of England.

The Pilgrims were mostly young Elizabethans in their twenties and thirties. They wore colorful clothes, not those black hats and gray gowns you see in the paintings. They enjoyed good times, including the imbibing of strong spirits and the telling of bawdy stories.

Not only did they believe in a simple form of worship without trappings and fanfare; they also believed strongly in individual freedom and -- here's an important part of their success story -- they became devoted capitalists two years after their arrival at Plymouth Rock.

On the ninth day they rounded the tip of Provincetown and the Mayflower dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay; the Pilgrims sat down together and drafted the first written covenant calling for civil self-government and individual freedom. It was the night independence was born. It was the forerunner of the United States Constitution. It was the Mayflower Compact.

Because the Pilgrims hadn't possessed enough money to rent and provision the Mayflower for its lengthy voyage, they financed their trip with the help of profit-seeking British businessmen. The Pilgrims agreed to work for the profit of a joint stock company. They were to invest their labor, and share in the profits. The London merchants were to invest their money and also share in the profits.

Each Pilgrim received a share of stock. Everything that was produced was to go into a common fund. At the end of seven years they were to sell whatever was left, beyond the necessities of living, and divide the proceeds according to the distribution of the shares of stock.

The British investors had demanded a communal set-up in the New World. It would make the distribution of profits and land much more convenient at the end of the seven years of the contract.

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