1890 Dystopian Science Fiction, Alternate History CHAPTER I. THE GREAT CITY This book is a series of letters, from Gabriel Weltstein, in New York, to his brother, Heinrich Weltstein, in the State of Uganda, Africa.] NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 1988 My Dear Brother: Here I am, at last, in the great city. My eyes are weary with gazing, and my mouth speechless with admiration; but in my brain rings perpetually the thought: Wonderful --wonderful --most wonderful What an infinite thing is man, as revealed in the tremendous civilization he has built up These swarming, laborious, all-capable ants seem great enough to attack heaven itself, if they could but find a resting-place for their ladders. Who can fix a limit to the intelligence or the achievements of our species? But our admiration may be here, and our hearts elsewhere. And so from all this glory and splendor I turn back to the old homestead, amid the high mountain valleys of Africa; to the primitive, simple shepherd-life...
- ISBN:
- 9780674866126
- 9780674866126
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Category:
- Anthologies (non-poetry)
- Age range:
- 22+ years old
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
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01-10-2013
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
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