[Penguin Island by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookPenguin Island BOOK VIII 1/35
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FUTURE TIMES. THE ENDLESS HISTORY Alca is becoming Americanised .-- M.
Daniset. And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground .-- Genesis xix.
25 {greek here} (Herodotus, Histories, VII cii.) Poverty hast ever been familiar to Greece, but virtue has been acquired, having been accomplished by wisdom and firm laws .-- Henry Cary's Translation. You have not seen angels then .-- Liber Terribilis. Bqfttfusftpvtuse jufbmmbb b up sjufef tspjtfucftfnqfsfvstbqsftbnpjsqsp dmbnfuspjtghjttdmjcfsufnbgsbodftftutpbnjtfbeftdpnqb hojtgjobo--difsftr--vjejtqpteoueftsjdifttftevqbzt fuqbsmfn Pzfoevofqsf ttfbdifuffejsjhfboumpqjojno Voufnpjoxfsiejrvf We are now beginning to study a chemistry which will deal with effects produced by bodies containing a quantity of concentrated energy the like of which we have not yet had at our disposal .-- Sir William Ramsay. S.I The houses were never high enough to satisfy them; they kept on making them still higher and built them of thirty or forty storeys: with offices, shops, banks, societies one above another; they dug cellars and tunnels ever deeper downwards. Fifteen millions of men laboured in a giant town by the light of beacons which shed forth their glare both day and night.
No light of heaven pierced through the smoke of the factories with which the town was girt, but sometimes the red disk of a rayless sun might be seen riding in the black firmament through which iron bridges ploughed their way, and from which there descended a continual shower of soot and cinders.
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