Project Gutenberg #79003
Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
1930Stapledon's sweeping future history of humanity, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg HTML.
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the sweets of individual life; and so they are led to curse the immensities. They fill their minds with human conceits, and their houses with toys. By night they draw the curtains and drown the quiet voice of the stars in revelry. But it is a joyless and a haunted revelry, desired less for itself than as a defence against reality.