Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Here, where we are standing, they lived, and walked, and talked, and slept, and carried on their business. Here they stabled their horses and feasted, from here they rode out to fight or drove out to trade. They were a powerful people, and rich, and great builders. They built to last, for they thought their city would last for ever. Kenneth Grahame
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The story of the Tower of Babel is told as an example of how God’s people were like to destroy one another. The people spoke one language and built a tower that reached to the heavens. Then the Lord confused their languages and they could not understand each other. They began to quarrel and fight among themselves, so that each tribe broke up into smaller groups which lived apart.

Source: The Wind In The Willows

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