Those men who survived - those eager to
obey, eager to live for one another, since they
had nothing else to vindicate them – those
men could neither carry on, nor preserve
what they had received. Thus did all thought,
all science, all wisdom perish on earth. Thus
did men - men with nothing to offer save
their great numbers – lose the steel towers,
the flying ships, the power wires, all the
things they had not created and could never
keep. Perhaps, later, some men had been
born with the mind and the courage to
recover these things which were lost; perhaps
these men came before the Councils of
Scholars Thou woro answorod as I have boon
What imagery is used in this passage?
the crumbling of a great society