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could have given no satisfactory answers。                  I regained in safety my own 

country;   in   which   I   have   been   long   peacefully   settled;   and   engaged   in 

practical business; till I retired on a competent fortune; three years ago。                    I 

have     been    little  invited   and   little  tempted     to  talk  of   the  rovings     and 

adventures of my  youth。            Somewhat   157disappointed; as most men   are; 

in matters connected with household love and domestic life; I often think 

of   the   young   Gy   as   I   sit   alone   at   night;   and   wonder   how   I   could   have 

rejected     such   a   love;   no   matter   what   dangers   attended       it;   or   by   what 

conditions   it   was   restricted。     Only;   the   more  I   think   of   a  people   calmly 

developing; in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable 

by our sages; powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force; and 

virtues   to   which   our   life;   social   and   political;   becomes   antagonistic   in 

proportion as our civilisation advances;… the more devoutly I pray that ages 



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may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers。 

Being;   however;   frankly   told   by   my   physician   that   I   am   afflicted   by   a 

complaint which; though it gives little pain and no perceptible notice of its 

encroachments; may at any moment be fatal; I have thought it my duty to 

my   fellow…men   to   place   on   record   these   forewarnings   of   The   Coming 

Race。 



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