466 THE WORLD MACHINE 



into the terrestrial, the human, the social, and the economic 

 mechanism, and to inquire whether in the sculpturing of the 

 earth, in the course of the winds, in the fall of the rain, in the 

 rise of kingdoms, in the appearance of great minds, great ideas 

 or great discoveries, in the alternation of years of drouth and 

 years of plenty, in dress or customs, or in the little happenings 

 of our daily lives, there is any different order at work than 

 that which we may observe in the cosmos at large. 



LONDON, June 1903 ; 

 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, April 1906. 



