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1  I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay.
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2  The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility.
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3  Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Morlocks' food had run short.
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4  In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
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5  The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books.
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6  This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.
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7  And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
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8  But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith, and was now far fallen into decay.
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