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PROGRESS OR DECADENCE, 
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being, nobler, indeed, but one in whom just those qualities 
which distinguish man from the animals, and to which at once 
the great deeds and the crimes of humanity have been due, 
have been more and more effaced, and who, if special protection 
or specially favourable circumstances be absent, will not be able 
to maintain the struggle for existence with new races that may 
seek to force their way into the country. 
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