dead-ends

Updated: May 29, 2025

'The old Pioneer is now dead, he told us, 'as dead as the Dodo or the Great Auk. 'No more need we shiver in our Kaffir blankets at Kaffir Stores 'fifty miles from the dead-ends of rail-less post-towns. "Le roi est mort." Malaria is dead or dying so far as Alexandra is concerned. We Alexandrians are now becoming wholesome Englishmen in a wholesome White Man's country.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

Taking what advantage they can of recent innovations, avoiding dead-ends and illusion leading to rainbows, the more sensitive and more competent segments of mankind must close ranks and move upward and onward to a new level of culture. The chief instrument available for such an enterprise is the twentieth century version of the political state.

Scott Nearing - Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History