These are open tracts upon which the blue ground is spread out and left exposed to sun and rain until it crumbles and disintegrates, the process being hastened by harrowing with steam ploughs; this may require a period of three or six months, or even a year.
But reason is not negative only; while it disintegrates the mass or unconscious unity, it builds up a new unity with higher organization.
The old "providential" scheme of history disintegrates before a new interest in the "gentile" nations to whose high culture Hebrew sources bore unwilling testimony.
Soon afterward, their empire disintegrates, and over the passage of time Outer Mongolia becomes an aphorism for obscurity.
Torn by civil war, the Seljuk sultanate disintegrates as its provinces and cities become independent under local dynasties.