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Title: Regeneration

Author: Charles Dye

Release Date: November 29, 2006 [Ebook #19964]

Language: English

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Regeneration

by Charles Dye

Edition 1, (November 29, 2006)

This etext was produced from "Future combined with Science Fiction
stories" September 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence
that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

REGENERATION

*So long as there are men and women alive, in a livable environment, then
a new beginning is possible.*

by Charles Dye

*It has been truly stated that those who fail to learn and
understand history, are condemned to repeat history!*

[Illustration: For those in the cities, it was the end....]

For those in the cities, it was the end....

_It was bound to happen sooner or later._

_Not because man failed to understand his fellow man, but because he
failed to understand himself._

_There wasn't much left afterwards--after the golden showers of deadly
dust and the blinding flashes that blotted out the light from the sun._

_And all because man continued to confuse emotion with reason._

_But somehow, as before, man survived...._

"_Don't touch!_" Sinzor's command shot through the chill morning air like
an arrow.

The ragged little group of men stopped dead in their tracks and looked
questioningly at their leader. He was pointing down to an object lying
half-buried in the soil at his feet.

"Another _death-thing_, maybe," Sinzor said. "Another _'thing_ our
ancestors made with which to destroy themselves." He peered around the
semi-circle of men until he spotted the aged one with a leg missing.
"Morge! See that this place is marked forbidden." The hunting party moved
on and Morge stayed behind. He hobbled about, collecting sticks and
stones, arranging them in the "forbidden-symbol" way to form a barrier
around the _'thing_. It was because of such a _'thing_ that he'd lost a
leg in his youth