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The object of "The Word before the Deluge" is to trace the progressive steps by which the earth has reached its present state, from that condition of chaos when it "was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep," and to describe the various convulsions and transformations through which it has successively passed."Das digitalisierte Buch mit wunderbaren Illustrationen findet man online bei 19thCentury-Science.[via BoingBoing]