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...Arabia Talbot found that the oryx a handsome black-and-white antelope is almost extinct because Arabs believe that to kill one is a great deed. In the old days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive...
...delight of the letters is that Santayana is always ready to stray off the course of his philosophic thought into detours of personalities and opinions. Some pithy detours: ¶"Germans as far as I know have no capacity for being bored. Else I think the race would have become extinct long ago through self-torture." ¶"The material world is a fiction; but every other world is a nightmare." ¶ "I think that art, etc., has a better soil in the ferocious 100% America than in the Intelligentsia of New York. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres...
...breed of Harvardmen will grow up, never having tasted that curious elixir--the blend of fall air, football, and good scotch. When the new alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...
Professional unbelievers and out-and-out secularists like Robert Ingersoll and Clarence Darrow are now all but extinct...
None of the U.S. breeds springs from native stock. The prehistoric horse, struck by disasters still unknown, was extinct in North America 300 centuries before Co lumbus. It was the great navigator him self who brought the first 25 horses, probably of Arabian ancestry, to the New World, landing at Santo Domingo on his second voyage in 1493. The Indians, terrified by the strange beasts, were easily routed. Later, the western Indians caught on, stole horses from Spanish conquerors, rode and bred them for war and hunting...