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THE established custom of occasions of this kind leads A the association to expect that its retiring president will address it upon some theme connected with the field of his own work. I shall not altogether ignore this custom, but I have chosen a theme that is at once peculiarly humanistic and distinctly prophetic. Geology has not usually been regarded as in any special sense a humanistic science, much less a prophetic one. But it is just because it has not been so regarded, and because I have fondly dreamed that it might become tributary in an eminent degree to humanistic problems and to a prophetic insight, that I have chosen the theme assigned for the evening.
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A Geologic Forecast of the Future Opportunities of Our Race 1 . Nature 83, 50–54 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083050a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/083050a0