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 day of triumph mankind will be there for us to see? Who knows whether their race will not have already fulfilled its destiny, and whether other beings will not rise upon the ashes and ruins of what once was man and his genius? Who knows if winged beings will not have taken possession of the terrestrial empire? Even then the work of the good demons will not be will teach a winged race arts and the joy of life.”