The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its Relation to the History of MankindGould and Lincoln, 1853 - 334 Seiten |
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abundance Africa Alps already ARNOLD GUYOT Asia Minor Atlantic atmosphere Australia basin become Cape Caucasus centre character civilization climate continental continents contrast countries currents depth desert direction earth Eastern element elevated epoch equator equatorial Europe existence extreme fact Fahr feet forms gentlemen geographical give globe Gulf Gulf of Mexico heat height hemisphere Himalaya human important inches Indian Ocean influence interior islands latitude less Mexico miles monsoon nations nature Nevertheless North north-east northern continents Old World organized Pacific Ocean peninsulas perfect Persia phenomena physical plains Plate plateaus polar present principal progress race rains relief rivers seas seems shores side slopes societies soil South America south-west southern species square miles superior surface table lands temperate regions temperature terrestrial masses three continents tinents tion trade wind tropical regions unequal vapors variety vast vegetation waters Western Asia western coast whole zone
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Seite 232 - As the plant is made for the animal, as the vegetable world is made for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World The man of the Old World sets out upon his way Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe. Each of his steps is marked by a new civilization superior to the preceding, by a greater power of development. Arrived at the Atlantic, he pauses on the shore of...
Seite 268 - Since man is made to acquire the full possession and mastery of his faculties by toil, and by the exercise of all his energies, no climate could so well minister to his progress in this work as the climate of the temperate continents.
Seite 21 - It must endeavor to seize those incessant mutual actions of the different portions of physical nature upon each other, of inorganic nature upon organized beings, upon man in particular, and upon the successive development of human societies ; in a word, studying the reciprocal action of all these forces, the perpetual play of which constitutes what might be called the life of the globe, it should, if I may venture to say so, take up its physiology.