Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World — Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
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Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

— Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod
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