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Olaf Stapledon. Death into Life
Death into Life
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I - BATTLE
CHAPTER II - EPHEMERAL SPIRITS
CHAPTER III - THE SPIRIT OF MAN SURVEYS HIS PAST
CHAPTER IV - THE SPIRIT OF MAN CONSIDERS HIS PLIGHT
CHAPTER V - MAN'S FUTURE
CHAPTER VI - THE COSMOS, AND BEYOND
CHAPTER VII -SALVATION
CHAPTER VIII - HERE AND NOW
THE END
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Olaf Stapledon
Published by Good Press, 2021
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THE ATTACK
The straining ears of the city's defenders were touched by a shadow of sound. Sound was it, or fancy? If sound, was it thunder, or the reverberation of distant battle? Advancing waves from the remote tumult vibrated through the city's foundations, and slid along the air-ways of the streets. The ruins trembled. The whole great wounded creature quivered in every cell. And where the sound travelled, there travelled also throughout the city's population, among the watchers at their posts and the crowds gathered in the shelters, a sigh, concealed by each from each.
