Penguin Island — 59 Bk8 - The Endless History and Section One

BOOK VIII. 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 Γῇ Ἑλλάδι πενίη μὲν αἐι κοτε σύντροφος ἐστι, ἀρετὴ δὲ ἔπακτός ἐστι, ἀπό τε σοφίης κατεργασμένη καὶ νόμου ἰσχυροῦ.[13] (Herodotus, Histories, VII cii.)

[13] 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_.

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