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Have the grandsons so degenerated that they are incapable of colonizing at all, or of managing colonies?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Have the grandsons so degenerated that they are incapable of colonizing at all, or of managing colonies?”
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Reid questions whether the descendants of successful colonizers have lost their ability to manage colonies.
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