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There were several villages in this piece of country, some of whose names have been preserved, and these suffered complete destruction with the forest. A thousand years afterwards, following a great storm and a consequent movement of the sand, a large number of oaks and considerable traces of the little village St Etienne de Paluel were laid bare.
Is it not a greater honor to help to save a soul from destruction, than bring glory to yourself by some feat of physical strength or skill? Thank the Lord on your knees to-night, that He sent you the opportunity you were always hankering after; and thank Him He gave you the grace to seize hold of it, and make use of it for His Glory, not your own!"
All along the coasts of the adjoining large islands towns and villages were swept away and their inhabitants drowned, till the total loss was, as nearly as could be estimated, 36,000 souls. Krakatoa thus surpassed Mont Pelee in its tale of destruction.
The man who tries to destroy them is like the swimmer who plunges among the water lilies to be dragged into destruction.... "Welsh was talked in the Garden of Aden. That is where commerse began. Didn't Eve buy the apple?... "Ladies and gentlemen, Cymrodorion, listen. There is a going in these classical old rafterss. It is the coming of God.
Year after year, the wild animals with which man never interferes are, on the average, neither more nor less numerous than they were; and yet we know that the annual produce of every pair is from one to perhaps a million young, so that it is mathematically certain that, on the average, as many are killed by natural causes as are born every year, and those only escape which happen to be a little better fitted to resist destruction than those which die.
Those who deal in evil carry along with them the springs of their own destruction, upon which they will tread, in spite of every caution, and their imagined security is but the brink of the pit into which they are to fall. It was so with the captain of this slave-ship.
By means of this educational program, we shall be able to open the eyes of both poor and rich, to the benefits of co-operation. "It has been wisely and truthfully said, that: 'The destruction of the poor, is their poverty.
Gibbon, who was astonished by so few things in history, wrote Sainte-Beuve, was amazed by the French Revolution. Nothing could be more natural. The historian in his study may consider the fall of dynasties, social upheavals, violent revolutions, and the destruction of order without a tremor. The things have passed away.
He lived and died a Jew, spared the sight of the destruction of Jerusalem which, according to his own canon in the text, would have proved that the system to which he had given his life was not of God; and the only relic of his wisdom is a prayer against Christian heretics. It is remarkable that he should have given this advice; but two things occur to account for it.
Lea, the historian of the Inquisition, observes: Of all the curses which the Inquisition brought in its train, this perhaps was the greatest that, until the closing years of the eighteenth century, throughout the greater part of Europe, the inquisitorial process, as developed for the destruction of heresy, became the customary method of dealing with all who were under any accusation.
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