XLVIII

Theory of true civilization. It lies not in gas, nor in steam, nor in

tilting tables. It lies in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Nomad peoples, shepherds, hunters, farmers, even cannibals, _all_ can

rise superior in energy, in personal dignity, to our races of the West.

We perhaps shall be destroyed.

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