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The Colossus

CHAPTER XVI
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I don't need to wait until he has worked me before I find out that he is an impostor.
But, as I was going to say, the trouble with you is that you forget the difference that exists between new and old cities.

A new community worships material things; and if it pays tribute to an idea, it must be that idea which appeals quickest to the eye--to the commoner senses.

And in this Chicago is no worse than other raw cities.

Fifty years from now "-- "Who wants to live fifty years in this miserable world ?" McGlenn broke in.

"There is but one community in which the writer is at ease, and that is the community of death.


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