Happy was the lot of those who were still
on the eastern side of life's meridian! Already, alas! the original
founders of the newer methods were falling out--Kirchhoff, Angstrom,
D'Arrest, Secchi, Draper, Becquerel; but their places were more than
filled; the pace of the race was gaining, but the goal was not and
never would be in sight. Since the time of Newton our knowledge of the
phenomena of nature had wonderfully increased, but man asked perhaps
more earnestly now than in his days, what was the ultimate reality
behind the reality of the perceptions? Were they only the pebbles of
the beach with which we had been playing? Did not the ocean of
ultimate reality and truth lie beyond?
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CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
By C.A.M. TABER.
Having had occasion to cruise a considerable time over the Southern
Ocean, I have had my attention directed to its prevailing winds and
currents, and the way in which they affect its temperature, and also
to the ice-worn appearance of its isolated lands.
It is now generally conceded that the lands situated in the high
latitudes of the southern hemisphere have in the remote past been
covered with ice sheets, similar to the lands which lie within the
antarctic circle.
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