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subject-scienceFictionAmerican-gutenberg--33662	Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)	A Republic Without a President, and Other Stories	nan		.txt	text/plain	52908	3902	83	But perhaps, after all, Ellesworth was not wholly to blame for not trying to make his mark; for he was not so strong as other men, as I said before, and had, besides, so thoroughly coddled himself into that belief that useful activity was struck off of his list of possibilities. It is a fact that our boasted civilization, instead of affording surer protection, murders more men in one way or another than barbarism, only in the present case the victims are not eaten; the coffins are sumptuous; the processions decorous; the mourners in good form; the burial service pregnant with hope, and culture is not shocked.	cache/subject-scienceFictionAmerican-gutenberg--33662.txt	txt/subject-scienceFictionAmerican-gutenberg--33662.txt