Geology suggests
plainly that, after at least fifty million years of conditions
which made life impossible except under water, these
anarchic forces dissipated themselves so far as to settle
into an equilibrium which showed itself on land in the
wild of the carboniferous forests, and which
then developed into the wilder exuberance of the Eocene
mammals.
plainly that, after at least fifty million years of conditions
which made life impossible except under water, these
anarchic forces dissipated themselves so far as to settle
into an equilibrium which showed itself on land in the
wild of the carboniferous forests, and which
then developed into the wilder exuberance of the Eocene
mammals.
Henry Adams - 1919 - Degradation of Democratic Dogma
