The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable.

Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men; Section 3, The Zenith of the Second Men (pp. 112-113) - Last and First Men (1930)