As Though He Had Never Been
Will the earth still keep her place among the planets; will she still journey with unmarked regularity round the sun; … will beasts pasture, birds fly, and fishes swim, when man, the lord, possessor, perceiver, and recorder of all these things, has passed away, as though he had never been?
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Context: Verney wonders whether nature will go on without anyone left to see it.
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Source: Volume III, Chapter VII