Excerpt from The Earth: Its Life and DeathAppears to us in living form. Terrestrial or aquatic animals, insects, plants, microsc0pic organisms - everything is born, lives, and dies. Matter itself is subject to evolution and, under certain conditions, exhibits distinct signs of age and fatigue. The Question arises: Does the Earth, taken as a whole, follow this general law? Does it live in a way analogous to that in which all things found on its surface do? These pages have been written to answer this question. I trust that they will give to those who read them a general idea of that science which ~may be called the physics of the Earth, a science which deserves, in the highest meaning of the word, the beautiful name of (buctg.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.