Our Inevitable Destroyers
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 may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.
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Context: Years later, the narrator explains why he has written down his account.
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Source: Chapter XXIX