Nor is it any exaggeration to suppose that in the unborn ages, illumined by a truth now, alas! too dimly perceived, the class of warriors and conquerors, of which these are signal types, will become extinct,--like the gigantic land reptiles and monster crocodileans belonging to a departed period of zoölogical history.
Sumner predicts the extinction of warriors and conquerors, likening them to ancient reptiles of the past.
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