The 1755 Lisbon earthquake made two-thirds of a prosperous city uninhabitable. Among European intellectuals, the disaster inspired widespread doubts about the beneficence of the deity and a fear that human effort was vain against the powers of nature. The former issue remains open, but Friday’s earthquake in Japan and tsunami will show that people can indeed limit the damage from what insurers call acts of God.
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