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But in later times, when Rhea, like other ancient divinities, loses her importance as a ruling deity, Demeter assumes all her functions and attributes, and then becomes the goddess of the life-producing and life-maintaining earth-crust.
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[Footnote 4: I use surface often in its geological significance, meaning earth-crust, and applied to sea-bottom as well as to dry land.]
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Such moods, perhaps, often come to the aged, when the hardened earth-crust over their souls shuts them out from spiritual influences.
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Later, the shrinking and warping earth-crust lifted the rock far above the level of the sea, and it may now be found at the top of the mountain.
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But each time they tried to descend they found the storm near the earth-crust far heavier than at the upper levels.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake
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Armor is needed; and a Vulcan spirit is making the anvil ring beneath the earth-crust of humanity.
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If you have ever been to a quarry where the rocks have been blasted and cut away, you have seen a little way down into this earth-crust.
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Following out the explanation of the aqueous solution, in which the earth-crust constituents are secreted, we find that the rarer and more precious metals do not generally enter into the composition of precious stones -- which fact may advisedly be repeated.
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While we were talking about the earth-crust, I daresay you were wishing to know, as I did, how thick it is -- how far down the layers of rocks go, and what lies underneath the lowest layer of all.
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It is an established fact that the fields, on which our nutritive salts or cell-foods -- our vital sustenance -- are grown, were originally formed from decayed primitive rock and _this primitive earth-crust matter is composed of the same mineral substances that are found in normal blood_.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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