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The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis

Author:Edward Hollis [Hollis, Edward] , Date: October 11, 2015 ,Views: 262

The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories by Edward Hollis

Author:Edward Hollis [Hollis, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429982108
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2009-11-09T21:00:00+00:00


The description of nature is intimately connected with its history; and the geologist, who is guided by the connection existing among the facts observed, cannot form a conception of the present without pursuing, through countless ages, the history of the past. In tracing the physical delineation of the globe, we behold the present and the past reciprocally incorporated, as it were, with one another; for the domain of nature is like that of languages, in which etymological research reveals a successive development, by showing us the primary condition of an idiom reflected in the forms of speech in use at the present day.



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