Life History of Our Planet (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Life History of Our Planet

With much of that which is called Popular Science the writer of these pages has no sympathy.

To read from pages addressed to the memory only, that the sun is so many miles from the earth, is so many miles in diameter, and is enveloped in whirlwinds of tempestuous fire so fierce that if they could blow upon the earth they would reduce it in a few seconds to a mist of atoms, may help the mind to astronomi cal facts and set it aglow with wonder, but it does not teach it astronomy. To read in similar manner that rocks were formed so, or so; that oceans came to be in this wise or that wise; that continents rose through the play of these forces, or those; that life began in one form or in another, and to read how it unfolded and branched from order to order, may be entertain ing, but it may have little to do with geology.

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