"Where does barbarism leave off and civilization begin?...We can hardly conceive ourselves to be the sole possessors of the only true civilization that the world has ever known."
— Civilization

January 1, 1970

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Robert E. Howard in a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (c. March 6, 1933). Reprinted in A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Volume 2. Hippocampus Press, 2017.