The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: a Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of some Recent Geology

Abstract

IT is not uncommon to find that men who have devoted much time and careful research to the elucidation of complex phenomena have experienced all the phases of thought through which a succession of previous observers have passed in bringing the subject to its then present stage. This is more usual in certain classes of inquiry than in others, and in such it is clearly helpful to dwell upon the history of the development of opinion upon the question. It is giving, as it were, the embryology of an idea in order to enable the reader to understand better the adult form. In the volumes before us Sir Henry Howorth has rendered this good service to students of glacial phenomena.

The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: a Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of some Recent Geology.

By Sir Henry H. Howorth, &c., &c. (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1893.)