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Excerpt from The Changeful Earth: An Introduction to the Record of the Rocks SO much attention is now given to the practical and systematic study of science in schools, that the valuable in¿uence of descriptive scientific literature is apt to be overlooked. An intimate knowledge of the simplest fact in Nature can be obtained only by personal observation or experiment in the Open air or the laboratory, but broad views of scientific thought and...

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Excerpt from The Growth of EuropeThis book attempts to show how the surface features of Europe are the result of remarkable and comparatively recent changes, in which the wearing away of the rocks and the deposi tion of continental waste have played a far smaller part than the actual upheaval and depression of the land. These surface-features are intimately related to the movements of man across them, and it is hoped that the 'traveller in fam...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.