Word: cataclysms
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...book is a direct answer to that puerile and invidious work known as the ex-Kaiser's War Memoirs. It is impossible to escape from the logic of M. Viviani's scathing denunciation of the ex-Kaiser's tacit inculpation in the events which preceded the world-wide cataclysm. The author has written this book from the traditional standpoint of a French nationalist. There is no screen to impartiality. The object is to prove first of all the ex-Kaiser's guilt and then the incrimination of high personages in Germany in the dishonorable plot to force...
...hundred years from now Stinnes, Basil Zaharoff, James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and Judge Gary will be familiar to antiquarians only, while the fame of Keats and Shelley, Dostoevsky and Goethe will persist to annoy and fascinate hundreds of generations of school children. Even such a recent cataclysm as the World War did not seriously disturb the order of rank in the international hall of fame. For all of their "saving of the world" and their "redemption of democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson and the organizing and technical genius that managed the enterprise were unable to displace Anatole France, Maxim...
...hard to picture such a cataclysm yet stranger things than the metamorphosis of a cigarette have occurred since first "this giddy globe" began its eternal spinning. Russia is determined in all its reforms and humanity is very like Autolycus in its picking up of "unconsidered trifies". It may even come to enjoy the new status of uicotine, and discourse as light-heartedly, or as earnestly, upon it as upon the old. Another Ben may be jailed. And the value of silver ltuings proven true when, in order to instill nourishment into the o'er-watched student, her ladyship...
...Aston and others has paved the way for its ready acceptance. Uranium, thorium and radium split up of their own accord. Moreover, many astrophysicists have long believed that the sudden appearance of vast quantities of hydrogen and helium in new stars might be due to an elemental cataclysm of this kind on a gigantic scale...
Robin's life and friends at the University, his familyand their friends at Grote and in London are pictured interestingly vivdly. Robin's relations with his mother, her afair with the gret Kuhlmann, and as a background, the whole fabrie of English social life before the cataclysm of 1914 are charmingly depicted. Even Mr. Benson's rather slip-shop style seems less obtrusive as the author approaches that great crisis when the destinyof nations trembled in the balance...