Excerpt from The Great Ice Age and Its Relations to the Antiquity of ManElusions to which a study of those results has led me. It is hardly necessary to do more than indicate very generally in what respects the present differs from the preceding edition. I may mention that the chapters dealing with the phenomena of existing glacial action in Alpine and Arctic regions have been carefully touched up, and the glacial geology of Scotland has likewise been thoroughly revised. Several rearrange ments of other matter have been made. Thus, the discussion of the cause of glacial climatic conditions is now removed to the end of the volume. Its former position in the earlier part of the book had led some to believe that my explanation of the evidence was necessarily bound up with the late Dr. Croll's astronomical and physical theory. It will now be seen, I hope, that this is not the case. If I have read the geological evidence aright, the views supported by me will stand, even should Dr. Croll's theory eventually fail to find general acceptance.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.