The seamen had unfastened the life boats and were beginning to lower them, when something brutal suddenly occurred with the annihilating rapidity of a cataclysm of Nature.
In his solution of the Antilles cataclysm he identifies Xmucane as the South American part of the continent and Xpiyacoc as North America.
He is a part of the mighty plan and will be followed after the next cataclysm by beings as much above him as he is above the chimpanzee.
That cataclysm was seen only by the few who saw with the eyes of the spirit.
Do you think he would have believed you if you had told him, in the midst of his worries, that the most tremendous cataclysm of the world was about to occur?
But I only fulfill a duty in emphasizing the very great help we have found in America in the course of this terrible war, the greatest human cataclysm which ever stormed the human world.
From any other standpoint I believe few Frenchmen ever permit themselves to dwell upon the ruin and suffering the present cataclysm has brought upon their country.
Being alone, the idea of a cataclysm disturbed him.
There has never been a completecataclysm of the globe, but the same space has not always the same duration, and is exhausted more quickly in one place than in another.
The historians of Atlantis put the date of the cataclysm which destroyed all or part of that famous country at nine thousand years before Christ.
In the depth of despair we may long for a universal cataclysm to extend, as it were, our own pain.
The aftermath of the war is a spiritualcataclysm such as civilized mankind has never before known.
But here there is the likelihood of a connection with the great cataclysm of antiquity, the disappearance of the island of Atlantis in consequence of a violent earthquake and volcanic action.
But out of the smoke and dust, the haze and mist of that great cataclysm has proceeded the character Jesus--absolutely unique.
And what stirred me now was a vision of that sober, drab-grey little man, going about his business on the great waters, with this portentous cataclysm hanging over his destiny.
In time of cataclysm he was a professional demigod.
The cataclysm was at hand; a new heaven and a new earth--far more worthy of study--would be unrolled before that very generation.
But to the beasts and birds whose home is on the moor, it is a cataclysm inexpressible, appalling, unthinkable.
But the trout and the loaches stand with tremulous fins beating the water meanwhile ten yards below, and aghast at the cataclysm that has altered for ever their native reach.
A general revolution is not made in a day, each such cataclysm is preceded by a long period of unrest and propaganda of opposition to the existing order and its beneficiaries.
The Messianists of Bible times expected the great transformation and world cataclysm to come by means of a divine miracle.
This thing was beyond tears--a cataclysm wrecking the whole structure of existence.
It was a cataclysm of sound, drowning the faculties, stunning the senses, brimming up the void with awful tumult.
Chapter LXI The Cataclysm And now at last Chicago is really facing the thing which it has most feared.
In my fancy the long, low swells of land, like those of some dreary sea, were for the moment the subsiding waves of the cataclysm that had rolled here and extinguished all life.
I didn't know what kind of a cataclysm could have plunged the seat of a galactic empire back into feudal darkness--but it had happened.
My theory was that some sudden social cataclysm had broken down the system of personality reinforcement and memory recording that had given continuity to the culture.
Such individuals who survive will be able to do so only by becoming retainers of the capitalists, and as such will be engulfed with them in the revolutionary cataclysm which will end the present era.
The greatcataclysm does not seem to have changed Shaw's opinions one iota, but all England is changed, and so he appears in a different light.
