Both Uses of
primeval
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Should the soul vanish from the earth, the motors would stop, because that is the power which keeps them going-not the oil under the floor under her feet, the oil that would then become primeval ooze again-not the steel cylinders that would become stains of rust on the walls of the caves of shivering savages-the power of a living mind —the power of thought and choice and purpose.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- They looked as if they had come to this room at the price of countless evasions, to let it help them pretend that theirs was still a civilized existence-but an act o£ primeval violence had blasted the nature of their world into the open and they were no longer able not to see.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(primeval) ancient (of or from a long time ago); or having existed from ancient times