Abstract
WITHIN comparatively recent times, the calculating wisdom of man has progressed far in the process of rendering Nature innocuous in her evil moods; so far, indeed, that legends declaring her majesty and portraying man trembling on his own hearth, the sport of elements which he cannot restrain, are rapidly going out of fashion. A materialistic age is satisfied to substitute formulae proving that Nature's latest gesture is only such another trick as might have been expected, and to devise rules by following which we may so fortify ourselves structurally as to give her only a remote and local chance of being dangerously unpleasant.
Great Storms.
By Carr Laughton V. Heddon. Pp. viii + 251 + 13 plates. (London: Philip Allan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 10s. 6d. net.
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TAYLOR, E. Great Storms. Nature 121, 490–491 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121490a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121490a0
