- EAN13
- 9782366597790
- Éditeur
- Literature and Knowledge Publishing
- Date de publication
- 09/10/2019
- Langue
- anglais
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Aide EAN13 : 9782366597790
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It must be owned that man, in most of his struggles with the world around him,
has fought blindly for his own ultimate interests. His contest, successful for
the moment, has too often led to sure and sad disaster. Stripping forests from
hill and mountain, he has gained his immediate object in the possession of
their abundant stores of timber; but he has laid open the slopes to be parched
by drought, or to be swept bare by rain. Countries once rich in beauty, and
plenteous in all that was needful for his support, are now burned and barren,
or almost denuded of their soil. Gradually he has been taught by his own
bitter experience, that while his aim still is to subdue the earth, he can
attain it, not by setting Nature and her laws at defiance, but by enlisting
them in his service. He has learned at last to be the minister and interpreter
of Nature, and he finds in her a ready and unrepining slave. In fine, looking
back across the long cycles of change through which the land has been shaped
into its present form, let us realize that these geographical revolutions are
not events wholly of the dim past, but that they are still in progress. So
slow and measured has been their march, that even from the earliest times of
human history they seem hardly to have advanced at all. But none the less are
they surely and steadily transpiring around us. In the fall of rain and the
flow of rivers, in the bubble of springs and the silence of frost, in the
quiet creep of glaciers and the tumultuous rush of ocean-waves, in the tremor
of the earthquake and the outburst of the volcano, we may recognize the same
play of terrestrial forces by which the framework of the continents has been
step by step evolved.
has fought blindly for his own ultimate interests. His contest, successful for
the moment, has too often led to sure and sad disaster. Stripping forests from
hill and mountain, he has gained his immediate object in the possession of
their abundant stores of timber; but he has laid open the slopes to be parched
by drought, or to be swept bare by rain. Countries once rich in beauty, and
plenteous in all that was needful for his support, are now burned and barren,
or almost denuded of their soil. Gradually he has been taught by his own
bitter experience, that while his aim still is to subdue the earth, he can
attain it, not by setting Nature and her laws at defiance, but by enlisting
them in his service. He has learned at last to be the minister and interpreter
of Nature, and he finds in her a ready and unrepining slave. In fine, looking
back across the long cycles of change through which the land has been shaped
into its present form, let us realize that these geographical revolutions are
not events wholly of the dim past, but that they are still in progress. So
slow and measured has been their march, that even from the earliest times of
human history they seem hardly to have advanced at all. But none the less are
they surely and steadily transpiring around us. In the fall of rain and the
flow of rivers, in the bubble of springs and the silence of frost, in the
quiet creep of glaciers and the tumultuous rush of ocean-waves, in the tremor
of the earthquake and the outburst of the volcano, we may recognize the same
play of terrestrial forces by which the framework of the continents has been
step by step evolved.
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