Death by Ennui
And yet, if you would take a thousand of the best and most philosophical of human beings you could find in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, or even Boston, and place them as citizens in the beatified community, my belief is, that in less than a year they would either die of ennui, or attempt some revolution by which they would militate against the good of the community, and be burnt into cinders at the request of the Tur.
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Context: The narrator weighs the near-perfect society of the Vril-ya against human nature.
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Source: Chapter XXVI