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Excerpt from The End of the World
Before the stupendous revelation of modern science burst upon the mind it was possible to express in a few simple words one's belief, or conjecture, about the end of the world. The earth was generally regarded as the prime reality: the remainder of the universe was an overarching structure which might crack under its own weight and topple upon the great plain on which man played his human comedy. Did not stars fall nightly from the skies? They. And the sun and the moon and the planets, were the lamps of the theatre, set in a great scaffolding or dome, which might rest on the higher mountains of the earth. The gods might, in a fit of anger, loosen the foundations of the scaffolding, and fling sun and moon and stars fierily upon the earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
