John McPhee

The control of nature

Stefano Zorzi

In other words, the people of Vestmannaeyjar, who were emblematic of the people of lceland, had lived since the year of settlement in the endless presence of disaster. They had obviously not been dissuaded by it, and had learned to subdue their residual fears. No matter how overwhelming a situation might seem to be, if there was any possibility of fighting back they had done so, and this seemed to have produced evolutionary effects, expressed in the battle against the lava, and much confirmed in the following story.

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