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The Last Evolution, by John Wood Campbell
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Title: The Last Evolution
Author: John Wood Campbell
Illustrator: Leo Morey
Release Date: December 9, 2008 [EBook #27462]
Language: English
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A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, August, 1932
The Last Evolution
By JOHN W. CAMPBELL, Jr.
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.
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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 li