Back Into the Primitive Night

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization. When we increase and feel the lack of room, we will proceed to kill one another.

James Howard Smith The Scarlet Plague (1912) by Jack London

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Context: The old man scolds his grandsons, who have started wearing human teeth as ornaments.

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Source: Chapter I

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