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Title: The Last Generation
A Story of the Future

Author: James Elroy Flecker

Release Date: June 10, 2010 [EBook #32769]

Language: English

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THE LAST GENERATION

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

THE BRIDGE OF FIRE

A BOOK OF POEMS CONTAINING THE BALLAD OF
HAMPSTEAD HEATH AND THE TWIN SONNETS OF BATHROLAIRE

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THE LAST GENERATION

A STORY OF THE FUTURE

BY
JAMES ELROY FLECKER

_El hombre es el rey de la creacion_; _vive_ (he
lives) _en la tierra y cree_ (he believes) _en el cielo_

DE ARTEAGA, _Spanish Grammar_

THE NEW AGE PRESS
140 FLEET STREET, LONDON
1908

Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh

TO

FRANK SAVERY

WHO TAUGHT, ENCOURAGED, AND REVEALED

CONTENTS

PAGE
INTRODUCTION 9
I. AT BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL 13
II. THE PROCLAMATION 17
III. THE MUTUAL EXTERMINATION CLUB 23
IV. THE EPISODE OF THE BABY 29
V. THE FLORENTINE LEAGUE 34
VI. OUTSIDE 43
VII. THE LAST MEN 54

THE LAST GENERATION

INTRODUCTION

I had been awake for I know not how many hours that summer dawn while
the sun came over