The Earth And Man Lectures On Comparative Physical Geography

Excerpt from The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography, in Its Relation to the History of Mankind This little work is not, then, a treatise on the subject indicated by its title. The author would wish to consider this unforeseen publication only as the forerunner of a more complete work, the materials of which, gradually collected during long years of study, and still daily accumulating, he hopes to arrange, and work out more at leisure, if not in the same form, at least in the same spirit. However, he is confident that the man of science will find, in this first sketch, the traces of serious and matured studies. Numerous quotations and references were incompatible with the form of these discourses. The facts, properly so called, are drawn from the common domain of science and as to the results that have been deduced from their combination, the author wil lingly leaves to men versed in the subject the task of distinguish ing those which may be regarded as constituting a progress in knowledge of the creation, and of its relations to man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.