What had happened to the once mighty race which had built this superior piece of engineering?

This morning Helen was reading for the first time Bryant's poem, "Oh, mother of a mighty race!"

Here in this deep trench whose abyss has never been plumbed, the last survivors of this once mighty race yet dwell.

The long-dead race called to him, a mighty race who had fashioned this armor, never meant for human use.

The mightiest and most destructive race ever to stalk man's world was undone by creatures they couldn't even see.

Yet it turned out that they'd been fleeing still another tribe, a wild and mighty race who had invaded their own system with fire and ruin.

"Well, Jarnevon was a big planet, and the Eich were a mighty warlike race."

But they encountered resistance from a great and mighty race, name unknown.

In this light, the fact that a few hundred humans, the ragged remnants of a once mighty race, still exist may be of slight significance.

Ghosts of men and events and great ideals that built a mighty race.