At last a condition of things must have been attained in which a man might have stood up on earth and looked about him and lived. - history nonfiction
If we could have visited the earth at that time we should have stood on great lava-like masses of rock without a trace of soil or touch of living vegetation, under a storm-rent sky. Hot and violent winds, exceeding the fiercest tornado that ever blows, and downpours of rain such as our milder, slower earth to-day knows nothing of, might have assailed us.
The earth aged. One million years followed another, and the day lengthened, the sun grew more distant and milder, the moon’s pace in the sky slackened; the intensity of rain and storm diminished and the water in the first seas increased and ran together into the ocean garment our planet henceforth wore.About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books.A Short History of the World. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg.
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