Who, that can conceive the idea of a world without a sun, but must connect with it the extinction of light and heat, of all animal life, of all vegetation and production, leaving the lifeless clod of matter to return to the primitive state of chaos, or to be consumed by elemental fire?
Quincy reflects on the profound implications of a sunless world, linking it to the loss of life and chaos.
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