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    The Last Evolution
    The Last Evolution
    The Last Evolution
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    The Last Evolution

    By John W. Jr. Campbell

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    What will the final evolution be, and will we recognize it when it arrives? A thought provoking story on the ultimate destination of all life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 15, 2014
    ISBN9781633840898
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      The Last Evolution - John W. Jr. Campbell

      The Last Evolution

      By John W. Campbell, Jr.

      Wilder Publications

      Copyright © 2014 Wilder Publications

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 978-1-63384-089-8

      I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever.

      So I am setting down my record on the mentatype.

      It was 2538 years After the Year of the Son of Man. For six centuries mankind had been developing machines. The Ear-apparatus was discovered as early as seven hundred years before. The Eye came later, the Brain came much later. But by 2500, the machines had been developed to think, and act and work with perfect independence. Man lived on the products of the machine, and the machines lived to themselves very happily, and contentedly. Machines are designed to help and cooperate. It was easy to do the simple duties they needed to do that men might live well. And men had created them. Most of mankind were quite useless, for they lived in a world where no productive work was necessary. But games, athletic contests, adventure—these were the things they sought for their pleasure. Some of the poorer types of man gave themselves up wholly to pleasure and idleness—and to emotions. But man was a sturdy race, which had fought for existence through a million years, and the training of a million years does not slough quickly from

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