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Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History

Even if that does not happen, there is still the obstacle of smallpox. This truly is the ultimate calamity of our time and there is no method to escape it.

其(その)義(き)なく共痘瘡(ほうそう)の難障(なんしやう)あり、実(じつ)に是(これ)一世(いつせ)決極(けつきょく)の災厄(さいやく)にして更(さら)に可脱(のがるへき)術(じゅつ)なし。

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