Article: One minute to midnight.(Book Review)

One with Nineveh By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich Island Press US$18.95

Rudyard Kipling, the bard of Imperial Britain during the 19th century, marked the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 with a poem that reflected on the ephemeral character of empire: Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! / Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, of the Department of Biological Sciences and Demographic Studies at California's Stanford University, take that verse of the poem as the source of the ...

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