The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem van Loon

The Story of Mankind

2013-10-01

“High up in the North in the land called Svithjod, there stands a rock. It is a hundred miles high and a hundred miles wide. Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak.”

“When the rock has thus been worn away, then a single day of eternity will have gone by.”


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