The Earth and Man, Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its Relation to the History of MankindC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 334 pages |
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The Earth and Man, Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its ... Arnold Guyot Affichage du livre entier - 1906 |
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abundance Africa Alps animal Asia Minor Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere Australia basin Cape causes centre chains character civilization climate continental continents contrasts countries degree depth desert direction earth east Eastern Asia element elevated entire epoch equator equatorial current Europe existence extent extreme fact Fahr fathoms feet forms give globe Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream heat height hemisphere Himalaya human inches Indian Ocean influence interior islands lands latitude less Mexico miles monsoon mountains nations nature nautical miles nents northeast northern continents Old World organized Pacific Ocean peninsulas physical plains Plate plateaus polar present principal progress race rains relief rivers seas seems shores side slopes societies soil South America southern southwest species square miles surface table-lands temperate regions temperature terrestrial masses three continents tinent tion trade-wind valley vapors variety vast vegetation warm waters western coast whole winds Yakutsk zone
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Page 219 - As the plant is made for the animal, as the vegetable world is made for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World The man of the Old World sets out upon his way Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe.
Page 285 - The first glance we cast upon the annals of the nations, enables us to perceive a singular but incontestable fact, that the civilizations representing the highest degree of culture ever attained by man, at the different periods of his history, do not succeed each other in the same places, but pass from one country to another, from one continent to another, following a certain order. This order may be called the geographical march of history.
Page 292 - ... consciousness awakes with energy; man recovers himself; the slave bent beneath his yoke springs up and holds his head erect. The Greek, with his festivals, his songs, his poetry, seems to celebrate, in a perpetual hymn, the liberation of man from the mighty fetters of nature. A new civilization is to be born; all these riches of poetry, of intellect, of reason, which are the heritage of the human mind, display themselves without obstacle, and expand in the sun of liberty. Who can describe all...
Page 136 - The moist air here is like a sponge filled with water ; reduce its volume by pressure, there will run out a certain quantity of water ; in the air laden with moisture the diminution of the temperature takes the place of pressure. We can easily conceive the application of this principle in meteorology. A warm and moist wind, the south-west of the Atlantic, for example, setting from the tropics, comes in contact with the colder air of the temperate regions ; its temperature is lowered ; it can no longer...
Page 254 - The man of the tropical regions is the son of a wealthy house. In the midst of the surrounding abundance, labor too often seems to him useless ; to abandon himself to his inclinations is a more easy and agreeable pastime. A slave of his passions, an unfaithful servant, he leaves his faculties, the talent God has endowed him with, uncultivated and unused.
Page 313 - Asia, Europe, and North America, are the three grand stages of humanity in its march through the ages. Asia is the cradle where man passed his infancy, under the authority of law, and where he learned his dependence upon a sovereign master. Europe is the school where his youth was trained, where he waxed in strength and knowledge, grew to manhood, and learned at once his liberty and his moral responsibility.