1 You know German, and geology, and things of that kind influence a man very much.
2 And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
3 endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
4 The very place, where he have been alive, Un-Dead for all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world.