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The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers
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AMERICAN PREFACE TO THE EARTH SCIENCES LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. THE rapid development of science in the present age, and the increasing public interest in its results, make it desirable that the most efficient measures should be adopted to elevate the character of its popular literature. The ten- dency of careless and unscrupulous book-makers to cater to public ignorance and love of the marvellous, and to foist their crude productions upon thosewho are too little instructed to judge of their real quality, has hitherto been so strong as to cast discredit upon the idea of popular science. It is highly important to counteract this evil tendency by fur- nishing the public with popular scientific books of a superior character. The publication of the present volume is the first step in carrying out a systematic enterprise of this kind. It initiates a series of such works on a wide range of scientific subjects, to be prepared by the leading thinkers of different countries, and known as the INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES. It is designed to consist of compendious scientific trea- tises, representing the latest advances of thought upon sub- jects of general interest, theoretical and practical, to all classes of readers. The familiar phenomena of surrounding Nature, in their physical andchemical aspects, the knowledge ofwhichhas recentlyundergone marked extension or revision, will be considered in their latest interpretations. Biology, or the general science of life, which has lately come into promi- nence, will be explained in its leading and most important principles. The subject ofmind, which, under the inductive method and on the basis of its physical accompaniments andconditions, is giving rise to a new psychology, will be treated with the fulness to which it is entitled. The laws of mans social development, or the natural history of society, which are now being studied by the scientific method, will also re- ceive a due share of attention. While the books of this series are to deal with a wide diversity of topics, it will be a leading object of the enterprise to present the bearings of inquiry upon the higher questions of the time, and to throw the latest light of science upon the phenomena of human nature and the economy ofhuman life. As the first requisite of such a series of works is trust- worthiness, their preparation has been confided only to men of eminent ability, and who are recognized authorities in their several departments. As they are to address the non- scientific public, it is a further requisite that they should be written in familiar and intelligible language. It is not to be expected that the authors will all attain to the same stand- ard in this respect, but they are pledged to the utmost simplicity of exposition that is possible consistently with clear and accurate representation... |
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