Vast numbers of times has the human race marched around this world on
which we live. Each journey of the whole family has embraced a cycle
of time. Each cycle has been rounded up by some great cataclysm of
nature, which has left the earth desolated, in ruins, to rest from the
invasions of its nomadic children.
Of the truth of these great convulsive throes of the planet we have
many ancient legendary accounts. The Biblical accounts, and the
irrefutable testimony of the globe itself, as recorded in the veined
strata which have held their record for ages inviolably concealed,
until man should finally bring to the unmasking of her secrets an
intelligence clarified from the mists of superstition, and illuminated
by the intuition not only of the soul, but of the intellect and reason.