Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 156
the very track where awagon-road had lately been, and beforethat a country cart-track, and before that a bridle-path,and before that again a mere trail for cattle. So I tookthe road for an example, and tried to show my boyhow it had grown from little things by slow degreesaccording to laws ; and if… … 128 Wonders of Earth, Sea, and Sky this road of ours; we may go back and back into thepast, always finding something earlier, which is thecause of the something later. The earth, the planets,and the sun were all a fiery mist long ago. And inthat mist, and in what came before it, we may look forthe…
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