What is "go the way of"

Usage examples of "go the way of".

The race of men with social conscience enough to care for their weak and wounded, with spiritual awareness enough to bury their dead and venerate their great totem, the race of men with great brains but no frontal lobes, who made no great strides forward, who made almost no progress in nearly a hundred thousand years, was doomed to go the way of the woolly mammoth and the great cave bear.

Maybe she should just take him back out to the steppes now, and let him go the way of all weakened animals in the wild.

Now there I go again, she thought, but it does seem that the Talented were letting an awful good thing go the way of Duty and Honor.

You'll live long enough to see the total destruction of organized society and then you'll go the way of everybody else!

You can't afford to go the way of that dreamer who started this work with the exalted idea of making it a benefit to the whole human race.

Besides, there is the matter of whether we wish to keep control of City Africa, or whether we are prepared to let it go the way of North America.

Unless there should be some miracle, I was looking on the beginning of the end of London-and very likely, it seemed, there were other men, not unlike me, who were looking at the beginning of the end of New York, Paris, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Bombay, and all the rest of the cities that were destined to go the way of those others under the jungles.