The World's Foundations Geology for Beginners
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The very warm and hearty reception accorded to my little book on Astronomy, has been my best encouragement in entering upon the domain of the sister science, Geology.
This companion-volume to "Sun, Moon and Stars" is written upon much the same plan, and is intended for the same class of readers - for Beginners of all kinds, whether poor or rich, whether boys, girls, or grown-up people.
My object in writing it has been not so much to supply a certain amount of technical knowledge, - for this may be easily obtained from ordinary class-books, - as to open the eyes of others to the hidden wonders and possibilities of enjoyment which lie folded in this little-studied branch of science.
Geology is counted by many to be a dull subject But if it has its dry bones, it has also its forms of poetic beauty, its scenes of loveliness, its chords of sublime harmony.
Geology is counted by others to be a dangerous subject But if so, the danger lies in ourselves, not in Geology.
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