Excerpt from Genealogy of the Caverly Family, From the Year 1116 to the Year 1880: Made Profitable and Exemplified by Many a Lesson of Life Our world and its origin, as well as the origin and progress of its families, are subjects which always have inspired a lively interest. Creation and created things, which at sight tend to evince vast power and paternal kindness, are full of inspiration. All things, as seen around us, are fraught with an Obvious design, evincing a divine purpose, progressive. And they advance as if to exhilarate the human race, to quicken their energies, urging everybody onward to an economical, duteous industry. There was a time, as we have been taught, when this earth was without form, and darkness was upon it; a time when there was no sun, no moon no stars; nor man, nor beast, nor bird, nor living thing. From this an inference has been drawn, that up to that hour gross darkness had prevailed in this immensity; a darkness so dense, so cold and deadly, that neither man nor animals, if then living, could have survived its presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.