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The Coming Race

CHAPTER XVI
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In fact, gregarious and amatory as are the Ana, Frogs are still more so.

In short, these two schools raged against each other; one asserting the An to be the perfected type of the Frog; the other that the Frog was the highest development of the An.

The moralists were divided in opinion with the naturalists, but the bulk of them sided with the Frog-preference school.

They said, with much plausibility, that in moral conduct (viz., in the adherence to rules best adapted to the health and welfare of the individual and the community) there could be no doubt of the vast superiority of the Frog.

All history showed the wholesale immorality of the human race, the complete disregard, even by the most renowned amongst them, of the laws which they acknowledged to be essential to their own and the general happiness and wellbeing.


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