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THE Wegener hypothesis purports to explain the origin, the past and the present of all the continents and oceans of this globe. But for us in South Africa it has a special interest in its account of the origin and distribution of continents in the southern hemisphere. Whether this account is correct or not, the hypothesis has the great merit of focussing attention on many great problems which call for explanation; and it has the further merit of associating these problems and making them parts and aspects of a great common scheme, instead of merely leaving them, as disjointed unconnected items, scattered haphazard over the various special sciences.
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SMUTS, J. Science in South Africa1. Nature 116, 245–249 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116245a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116245a0