The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: littered like a storm-worn beach with all that had floated, and the
dead bodies of the men and brutes, its children. For days the
water streamed off the land, sweeping away soil and trees and
houses in the way, and piling huge dykes and scooping out Titanic
gullies
over the country side. Those were the days of darkness that
followed the
star and the heat. All through them, and for many weeks and
months, the
earthquakes continued.
But the star had passed, and men, hunger-driven and gathering
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