Word: cataclysmical
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...question," Freund said, "of the Court eroding away these restrictions without a resulting cataclysm...
...preposterous Dr. Velikovsky . . . says he needs "more learning." What he really needs is a pinch of Attic salt. The famous passage about the sun standing still for Joshua needs no interplanetary cataclysm to explain it. It carries its explanation right in the text . . . The chronicler, writing ancient history, comes upon the Book of Jashar and quotes from it the couplet...
Joshua, says Velikovsky, should get no credit for this neat bit of military strategy. The comet was grazing the earth at that time, and had stopped the earth's rotation. The Israelites were so absorbed in polishing off the Amorites that they did not notice this astronomical cataclysm...
...civilization is collapsing in a gigantic cataclysm. We don't regret it too much. The inspiration for that civilization was so profoundly materialistic . . . But that which collapses must be replaced. Will the church be present in the work of reconstruction? Will her conception of man and life prevail? Will the result be Christian? That is our preoccupation...
Sank Center still persisted in believing--distant tremors of Big Bertha's hits had only shaken it mildly. Then depression came--depression being a state of mind in which man no longer feels sure of himself or sure that what he's doing he's doing right. Another cataclysm followed hard upon. It seems that the tribal ways of thinking that the man of 1900 had blithely ignored had a resurgence in the twenties and thirties; any illusions hovering protectedly by were finally burned in the crematoriums or died with the Kamikaze pilots. The vencer of civilization had not just...