See foreworld on Wiktionary
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"text": "1916, John Burroughs, Under the Apple-Trees\nRocks have literally come down to us from a foreworld. The youth of the earth is in the soil and in the trees and verdure that springs from it; its age is in the rocks; in the great stone book of the geologic strata its history is written."
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