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"When at last he had begun to realize the gulf between himself and others, he realized also that he had been damaged past repair by his simian upbringing. In these circumstances he would, as a rule, content himself with a life of personal kindliness and humour, which was ever rooted in the strength of his own unshakable ecstasy of contemplation."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 269)

"Paul had by now almost fulfilled the task that I had demanded of him."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 256)

"WITH THIS SPIRITUAL ACHIEVEMENT SOLIDLY accomplished, Paul was ready to observe London and the world with new eyes."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 233)

"Paul spent the last fortnight of his summer holiday at home, preparing for the next term, and feeling the influence of Katherine spread deeply into his being."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 221)

"YOUR LITTLE GREAT WAR REACHED its ignominious end."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 201)

"I MUST NOW DESCRIBE FROM the Neptunian point of view that moment in the career of the First Men which seemed to those who experienced it an eternity of war."

-Stapeldon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 152)

"Your war-time politicians, perhaps more clearly than your generals, displayed for us the essential weakness of your kind."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 124)

"I now pass on to tell you how your war and your reactions to your war appear to the Last Men."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 119)

"Not until Paul was already at school did I begin to exercise a deliberate influence over him. My aim was to prepare him to attain in early maturity as complete an insight as possible into the Neptunian view of Terrestrial affairs."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 72)

"This it was that in the majority of Paul’s contemporaries caused, indeed, grave agony of mind, but could not bring them to refuse war."

-Stapledon, Olaf. Last Men in London (pg. 58)