It is obvious, indeed, that if the oceanic troughs in those early days were of an abysmal character, a belt of shallow water would be required to explain the geographical distribution of cosmopolitan marine life-forms.
Having learned that no truly abysmal rocks enter into the composition of our continents, of what kind of rocks, we may ask, are the islands composed?
The accumulation of all these substances in such relatively great abundance shows us that the oceanic basins have remained unchanged for a vast period of time, and assures us that the formation of the abysmal red clay is extremely slow.
The red clay is the most widely distributed of abysmal deposits.
It is true that some of our limestones must have accumulated in moderately deep clear seas, yet none of these limestones is of abysmal origin.
There are, moreover, certain geological facts which seem hardly explicable on the assumption that the seas of past ages attained abysmal depths over any extensive areas.
Indeed, it seems to form a certain proportion of all the deep-sea organic oozes, and may be said, therefore, to exist everywhere in the abysmal regions of the oceanic basins.
Reference has already been made to the remarkable fact that no abysmalaccumulations have yet been detected amongst the stratified rocks of the earth's crust.
With rioutous laughter, which sounded harsh, yea, sacrilegious, in the sublime silence of that exceptional town, we were piloted into an abysmal nook sacred to a cluster of rookeries haggard in the extreme.
Between brick walls we thread our way, and begin descending into the abysmal darkness; the tapers, without which it were impossible to proceed with safety, burn feebly in the double night of the subterranean tenements.
Not too soon came the steep and perilous descent into the abysmal depths of the mountain fastness.
Not a motion or sound succeeded this wonderful trans-abysmal dispatch.
The message that now startled my ears began with an exact answer to that trans-abysmal despatch: "My son, the thought of your death fills me with happiness.
Daily and hourly he felt the abysmal solitude that surrounded him.
He could not and did not try to fend himself against the keen edge of the terrible doubts, the awful mysteries, the abysmal questions and duties.
The glory swims Girdling the glory-giver, swallowed straight By night's abysmal gloom, unglorified Behind as erst before the advancer: gloom?
The great poet is always more or less the original, the abysmal man.
His is more the voice of the eternal, abysmal man.
The poet seeks to interpret life from the central point of absolute abysmal man.
But we may go further in our exploration of the "abysmal deeps.
And not only out of the abysmal deeps of Man, but also out of the hidden soul of the Earth, and other cosmic beings.
The bottomless and abysmalnature of the human soul comes first into clear revelation in the Person of Christ, who is, Franck declares, truly and essentially both God and Man.
Boehme {184} is no scientific genius and he did not dream that every item and event of the world of phenomena could be causally explained, without reference to any deeper abysmal world of Spirit.
The Ocean is but a drop of a bucket to the immensity of the soul, with its abysmal deeps and its immeasurable capacities.
Milk-wagon horses in Dallas, it appeared, were not schooled to the sight of spinning motor cars, and the phenomenon filled at least one with abysmal horror.
It was mysterious, horrible; they believed themselves to be dying and screamed in abysmal terror of the unknown.
Knowing her as he did, this abysmal terror was inexplicable; such abandon was entirely out of keeping with her.
But the change, though he was still in the darkness of abysmal despair, was for the better.
She made not half a dozen steps of it across the deck, and before ten seconds were over a large, half-empty bottle of laudanum was sinking forlornly into the abysmal depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
With his perfected telescopes he entered abysmal vistas which no human eve ever penetrated before, which no human mind had hitherto more than vaguely imagined.
The lava of life pours forth forever, but the systems break and crumble; each one overwhelmed in its allotted time by a new outrushing of abysmal energy.
We now perceive what the alternative is, what the voice of "deep calling unto deep" really utters, as the constellation of Hercules draws the solar world toward it through the abysmal night.
In that essentially creative act where deathless ideas and harmonies are given being by poets and musicians, so that something out of nothing is brought to pass by personality, man faces a mystery as abysmal as God's making of the world.
When you face life's abysmal mysteries that your eyes can no more pierce than mine, you have no one to trust.
A wholesome restraint upon the wild perversions, the anarchic denials, the abysmal despairs of this period of life is the clear recognition that in some form it is one of the commonest experiences of man.
Thus whatever else it is, the poem is a Summa of saving doctrine, which is driven home by illustrations of the sovereign good and abysmal ill coming to man under the providence of God.
There is an abysmal difference in the amount of natural knowledge exhibited by any writing of the twelfth century, and the works of Albertus Magnus belonging say to the middle of the thirteenth.
The jungle was dark and sinister, and all the more so when the moon rose high and lightened its face and left them looking into weird, abysmal blackness between moonlit branches.
He visioned dimly some denizen of the vast depths, living beyond the limits of the sun's penetration, far in the abysmal darkness where its only light must be self-made.
Hence the location on this mountain, midway between the San Gabriel Valley and Mount Lowe, with towering mountains and abysmal canyons, affords a variety of scenery almost inconceivable to the dweller in the valley.
The soul's emotion of malice displays an abysmal resistance to such a reality.
Such a complete triumph of "good" over "evil" would mean the end of everything that exists because everything that exists depends upon this abysmal struggle.
I speak of the part played by the will in the abysmal struggle between love and malice.
It may become an abysmal and unutterable "death-in-life.
The accursed system of private property, rooted in the abysmal malice of the human heart, lies like a dead weight upon every creative impulse.
The abysmal struggle is not between the soul and the body or between the flesh and the spirit, but between the power of life and love, in the body and the soul together, and the power of death or malice, in the body and the soul together.
