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LANDSCAPE IN HISTORY

AND OTHER ESSAYS

LANDSCAPE IN HISTORY

AND OTHER ESSAYS

SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE D.C.L., F.R.S.

London Macmillan and Co., Limited New York: The Macmillan Company 1905

Glasgow: Printed at the University Press by Robert Maclehose and Co. Ltd.

PREFACE

The present volume consists of a collection of Essays and Addresses which have appeared at intervals since the publication of my Geological Essays at Home and Abroad. Half of them deal with Scenery in its geological relations and in its influence on human progress--a subject which for many years has engrossed much of my thought. Others discuss the problem of the Age of the Earth, while two are biographical, and one deals with the place of Science in modern education.

I have to thank the editors of the Fortnightly, Contemporary, and International Quarterly Reviews for their courtesy in readily according me permission to reprint the essays which have appeared in these publications.

15th January, 1905.

CONTENTS

PAGE I

LANDSCAPE IN HISTORY, 1

LANDSCAPE AND THE IMAGINATION, 28

III

LANDSCAPE AND LITERATURE, 76

THE ORIGIN OF THE SCENERY OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS, 130

THE CENTENARY OF HUTTON'S 'THEORY OF THE EARTH,' 158

GEOLOGICAL TIME, 198

VII

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN, 234

VIII

HUGH MILLER: HIS WORK AND INFLUENCE, 257

SCIENCE IN EDUCATION, 282

THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, 308

Landscape in History