By George Marsh
George Perkins Marsh's guy and Nature used to be the 1st booklet to assault the yank delusion of the superabundance and the inexhaustibility of the earth. It was once, as Lewis Mumford stated, "the fountainhead of the conservation movement," and few books when you consider that have had such a power at the method males view and use land. "It is worthy examining after 100 years," Mr. Lowenthal issues out, "not in basic terms since it taught vital classes in its day, but additionally since it nonetheless teaches them so well...Historical perception and modern ardour make guy and Nature a permanent classic."
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B. Cantegril, F. Jeandel, and L. Bellaud, "Etudes experimentales sur les inondations," Comptes rendus . . de l'Academie des Sciences, 51 (1860), 1011-1015. " INTRODUCTORY 15 the scattered data which have chanced to be recorded have never been collected. It has now no place in the general scheme of physical science, and is matter of suggestion and speculation only, not of established and positive conclusion. At present, then, all that I can hope is to excite an interest in a topic of much economical importance, by pointing out the directions and illustrating the modes in which human action has been or may be most injurious or most beneficial in its influence upon the physical conditions of the earth we inhabit.
From the character of the artificial objects, as compared with others belonging to known dates, or at least to known periods of civilization, ingenious inferences have been drawn as to their age; and from the vegetation, remains of which accompany them, as to the climates of Central and Northern Europe at the time of their production. There are, however, sources of error which have not always been sufficiently guarded against in making these estimates. When a boat, composed of several pieces of wood fastened together by pins of the same material, is dug out of a bog, it is inferred that the vessel, the skeletons, and the implements found with it, belong to an age when the use of iron was not known to the builders.
It is perhaps not out of place to observe here that our English word aim comes from the Latin restimo, I calculate or estimate. See Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, and the note to the American edition, under Aim. [Hensleigh Wedgwood, A Dictionary of English Etymology, Vol. I (A-D), with Notes and Additions by George P. Marsh (New York, 1862), p. ] Another proof of the control of the limbs by the eye has been observed in deaf-and-dumb schools, and others where pupils are first taught to write on large slates or blackboards.