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| 27 | 672 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps it had perished of some hastening, virulent disease specific to a species, which then, its hosts vanished, must itself perish. |
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| 27 | 669 | Perhaps an ancient technological civilization on Earth had colonized this world, before slipping unnoticed, with its devices, perhaps intentionally, from the pages of history. |
| 27 | 670 | Perhaps it had succumbed to geological upheavals, or other natural catastrophes, perhaps meteoritic bludgeonings from space, eradicating entire species, or from sun flares which might scald a world, or from an uprooting which might produce a moon and leave behind a vast basin to be filled with water and brine. |
| 27 | 671 | Perhaps there had been a preemptive strike by cautious aliens, unwilling that the cosmos should entertain a nascent competitor. |
| 27 | 672 | Perhaps it had perished of some hastening, virulent disease specific to a species, which then, its hosts vanished, must itself perish. |
| 27 | 673 | Or perhaps it had simply been overrun, as so many civilizations, by barbarous primitives. |
| 27 | 674 | Many things might have occurred. |
| 27 | 675 | She scarcely remembered his remarks, so confused and frightened she had been. |