The Ice Age in North America, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man

Abstract

SWITZERLAND has been called the playground of Europe. The glacial epoch occupies a similar position in geology. Here the student, wearied with the precision of palæontology or of mineralogy, may revel in dreams of omnipotent glaciers, wrap himself in ice sheets, throw mental somersaults, swallow self-contradictory arguments, and be as blind to unpleasant facts as was Nelson at Copenhagen, when he put the telescope to his useless eye, and “spoke disrespectfully” of the signal of recall. To any sarcastic historian of the progress of geology, the literature of ice and its effects will be a boon, since it is so rich in unsound inductions and unstable hypotheses.

The Ice Age in North America, and its Bearings upon the Antiquity of Man.

By G. Frederick Wright, &c. With an Appendix on “The Probable Cause of Glaciation,” by Warren Upham, F.G.S.A. With many new Maps and Illustrations. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Limited, 1890.)