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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