The world: historical and actual . of creation, volcanic action playedthe chief part, even after its general volcanoes were the great agencies of the geo-logical dawn, so glaciers came in the cool of the evening. The transition from more than tropicalheat, the world over, to universal winter is sup-posed to have been sudden, and no satisfactoryhyjrothesis has yet been devised for its says of this era of frost: A vast mantleof ice and snow covered the plains, the valleys andthe seas. All the springs were dried up; the riversceased to How. To the movements of a
The world: historical and actual . of creation, volcanic action playedthe chief part, even after its general volcanoes were the great agencies of the geo-logical dawn, so glaciers came in the cool of the evening. The transition from more than tropicalheat, the world over, to universal winter is sup-posed to have been sudden, and no satisfactoryhyjrothesis has yet been devised for its says of this era of frost: A vast mantleof ice and snow covered the plains, the valleys andthe seas. All the springs were dried up; the riversceased to How. To the movements of a numerousand animated creation succeeded the silence ofdeath. It was in the period immediately follow-ing the general thaw, or springtime of thatsupreme winter, that the present civilization wasbegun. Nature having, as it were, frozen out,and gotten rid of her experiments, zoological andbotanical, was ready to begin anew with theremnant. In point of time, then, the great period of theworld was before man, as well as before
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