We’re living at the close of one of the many periodic extinctions of the larger forms. The only places you can find a fauna comparable with those of the Pleistocene is on a few preserves in Africa. And with our own bloodthirsty species infesting the earth, it’s getting worse all the time.
Employment, L. Sprague de Camp (1939)
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