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" ... always provided that it be with the Vril-ya nations. Nations which, not conforming their manners and institutions to those of the Vril-ya, nor indeed held capable of acquiring the powers over the vril agencies which it had taken them generations to... "
Novels - Page 317
by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 116 pages
...but they attached no sentiment of pride to that antiquity, and, on the contrary, helieved their 40 present excellence of breed came from frequent crossing...which they had first settled. " Wherever," said Zee, moralizing, " wherever goes on that early process in the history of civilization, by which life is...
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1882 - 318 pages
...differing, yet akin; and they encourage such intermarriages, always provided that it be with the Vril-y nations. Nations which, not conforming their manners...earlier struggles against obstacles in nature amidst t'lie localities in which they had first settled. "Wherever," said Zee, moralizing, "wherever goes...
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The Pilgrims of the Rhine to which is Prefixed The Ideal World: The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1892 - 454 pages
...and more distant tribes of the Vril-ya, who, whether by the accident of climate or early distinction of race, were of fairer hues than the tribes of which...which they had first settled. "Wherever," said Zee, moralizing, "wherever goes on that early process in the history of civilization by which life is made...
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Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions, Volume 2

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1893 - 474 pages
...attain and transmit, were regarded with more disdain than citizens of New York regard the negrobS. I learned from Zee, who had more lore in all matters...which they had first settled. " Wherever," said Zee, moralizing, — " wherever goes on that early process in the history of civilization by which life...
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The Novels of Lord Lytton: Kenelm Chillingly. The coming race

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897 - 474 pages
...whom I was brought into familiar converse, that the superiority of the Vril-ya was supposed to hare originated in the intensity of their earlier struggles...against obstacles in nature amidst the localities ^n which they had first settled. " Wherever," said Zee, /moralizing, — " wherever goes on that early...
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The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - 1967 - 154 pages
...and more distant tribes of the Vril-ya, who, whether by the accident of climate or early distinction of race, were of fairer hues than the tribes of which...powers to compete with his fellow, we invariably find th'e result— viz., since in the competition a vast number must perish, nature selects for preservation...
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Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics

Bruce Clarke - 2001 - 296 pages
...their prophesied return to and reconquest of the upper world melds Platonic myth to imperial motives: The superiority of the Vril-ya was supposed to have..."wherever goes on that early process in the history of civilization, by which life is made a struggle, in which the individual has to put forth all his powers...
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Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology

Peter Fitting - 2004 - 246 pages
...sculptured gods, or as, in the eyes of Christian mourners, seem the peaceful brows of the dead. [chapter 5] I learned from Zee, who had more lore in all matters...localities in which they had first settled. "Wherever . . . goes on that early process in the history of civilisation, by which life is made a struggle,...
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