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the salt of the sea mean? What is the period of time of its ac- 
cumulation? What volumes of rock—many times all that is now 
above its surface—have been destroyed in its production? 
What range and volume of life of which the voyager has but a 
glimpse, does it harbor now? What of the life of which it has 
been the home in the time which has passed since life was, and 
what of the great evolutions that have taken place within it? 
And what is yet to come? The great panorama of events, of 
processes, of changes, all of which are involved in the history 
of the sea, add a meaning larger than the eye, unaided, sees. To 
see the ocean merely as it is, is like seeing the social fabric of 
today, without reference to what has been in the past, or what 
is to be in the future. 
Our period of school is all too short to give us an intelligent 
look into all the fields with which it would be profitable to have 
acquaintance, but is this field on which we live and move and 
have our being, one we can afford to neglect? 
There is one other aspect of both geology and geography, which 
gives them great educational value. Neither science is com- 
pleted or nearing completion. There are great things ahead in 
both. As an organized science, geology is older than geography, 
at least older than geography in its modern sense, and is the 
mode advanced. While geology has made phenomenal advances 
in the last half century, the problems ahead are so numerous 
and so interesting that even an elementary course in the sub- 
ject, properly developed, opens up great vistas for the future. 
I believe it to be fundamentally important that young people 
should be led to see visions, and inspired by the allurements of 
future development. Nothing is more conducive to a right 
attitude toward life in general, than the feeling of the possibil- 
ity of participation in the progress of the future. In this, 
geology is not peculiar. Only as it is less advanced than some 
other sciences, has it the advantage over them in this respect. 
In saying this, I am not losing sight of the fact that but few of 
- those who give attention to geology in their student days, will 
ever go farther; but a comprehension of what is likely to come, 
stimulates an abiding interest, and abiding interests in various 
lines of work and thought, are important elements in a good 
education. 
