[Rarebooks] FS: Lafcadio Hearn MANUSCRIPT: Speculation on Extra-Terrestrial Life

[Charles Agvent]

HEARN, Lafcadio [BISLAND, Elizabeth: editor]. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF 
LAFCADIO HEARN with THE JAPANESE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN. Boston & New 
York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906/1910. First Edition. Three volumes in 
original green cloth with paper spine labels and extra labels tipped in 
at the rear. Each title is one of 200 large-paper copies with the first 
title, THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN in two volumes, also 
containing an ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE of Hearn's, in this case part of 
an interesting philosophic discussion with some speculation on life on 
another planet. In full: "...nor the sudden advent of larger knowledge 
from some elder planet prove for us, by reason of the present moral 
condition of mankind, nothing less than a catastrophe?-- might it not 
even result in the extinction of the human species?... The rule seems to 
be that the dissemination of dangerous higher knowledge, before the 
masses of a people are ethically prepared to receive it, will always be 
prevented by the conservative instinct; and we have...." Two of the 
volumes with the early bookplate of George Allison Armour, a member of 
the Grolier Club whose collection was sold at auction in 1937 and whose 
former home, now the Lowrie House, was donated by his daughter to 
Princeton University to serve as the residence for the president. Near 
Fine, lacking as usual the dustwrappers and slipcase. (#011637)        
$2,500.00

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