Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Ignatius Donnelly
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{p. 62} atmosphere was necessary to lift this gigantic layer of ocean-water out of its bed and into the clouds! The ice, then, was not the cause of the cataclysm; it was simply one of the secondary consequences. We must look, then, behind the ice-age for some cause that would prodigiously increase the _heat_ of our atmosphere, and, when we have found _that_, we shall have discovered the cause of the drift-deposits as well as of the ice. The solution of the whole stupendous problem is, therefore, heat, not cold. {p. 63} PART II. The Comet. CHAPTER I. A COMET CAUSED THE DRIFT. Now, good reader, we have reasoned together up to this point. To be sure, I have done most of the talking, while you have indulged in what the Rev. Sydney Smith called, speaking of Lord Macaulay, |
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