Excerpt from The Earth: Its Life and Death

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 More.

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