# The Cold Snap 1898

Author: Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22715

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Cold+Snap+1898+Bellamy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what if it should? Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own endurance, the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to cause a feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising or falling mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-cold-snap-1898-22715/chapters/1/index.md)