Even for them , fire is the ever - present menace .
Menace is not inconceivable that by 2000 AD all the nineteenth - century buildings dealt with in this book will be one with Nineveh and Tyre .
Even for them , fire is the ever - present menace , and it is not inconceivable that by 2000 AD all the nineteenth - century buildings dealt with in this book will be one with Nineveh and Tyre .