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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.

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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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Autobiographer
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
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Civilization
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Race
Sink
Night
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Back
Doomed
Human
Climbs
Humans
Bloody
Primitive
Begins
Upward

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