Part 62

Section 82.

THE NECESSITY OF VOLCANOES.

The remarkable proofs which modern geology has presented of vast accumulations of heated and melted matter beneath the earth’s crust, make it evident that (S. 3, N. 2) volcanoes are essential to the preservation of the globe. If (App. § 36) there were no safety-valves through the crust, such vast accumulations of heat would rend asunder even a whole continent. Volcanoes are those safety-valves, more than two hundred of which are scattered over the earth’s surface. But if no such passages existed (see S. 27, N. 8), nothing could prevent the pent-up gases from accumulating till they had (Impf. Subj.) gained strength enough to rend a whole continent, and perhaps the whole globe, into fragments.—REV. PROF. HITCHCOCK.

Use the gen. of the def. art.

Use the attributive construction explained in S. 48, N. 6, and say ‘The by (von, followed by the def. art.) modern geology presented (+auf´stellen+) remarkable proofs of (von) a vast accumulation’, etc.

+erhitzt.+

matter = masses.

+Erdrinde+, f.

essential = necessary; to = for.

‘=There is=’ and ‘=there are=’, used in a general sense, are generally rendered by the impers. v. ‘+=es giebt=+’.

Say ‘in the earth’s crust’.

+auseinan´derreißen.+

+sogar.+

are = form.

Here follow the words ‘of which’.

+verteilen.+

passages = openings.

the — accumulating = the accumulation of the pent-up (+ein´sperren+) gases.

+Kraft+, f.; enough, +hinreichend+, adj., to be placed before the noun ‘strength’.

‘and’ here +ja+. The verb ‘to rend into fragments’ (+auseinan´derreißen+, of which form the Supine, S. 1, N. 2) must of course be placed at the end of the whole passage.

Section 83.

THE POWER OF BEAUTY.

In one of the worst parts of London there is an institution which I visited. In one room I found about thirty-five men listening (S. 16, N. 4) to the teaching of the daughter of a small shopkeeper in the neighbourhood. She was one of the prettiest women (S. 16, N. 10) I ever saw in my life. I noticed that the young girl was quite alone with those rough men, and said to the superintendent: “Are you not afraid to leave the pretty young girl alone with all those men?” He replied: “I am.” “Then, why don’t you go to her?” “You mistake my fear. I am not afraid of their doing her any harm. They love her so much that they would lick the ground on which she walks, but I am afraid that some person may step in, who, not knowing the manner of the place, may say something impertinent to her; and if he did, he would not leave the place alive.”—LORD SHAFTESBURY.

Render ‘there is’ by the Pres. of +bestehen+.

+Anstalt+, f.

+ungefähr+.

+Unterricht+, m.

+Krämer.+