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for such work which is today unrivaled in the world. This material 

 has been introduced in footnotes, while rendering a most faithful trans- 

 lation of the original text and, further, enriching the work with 487 

 illustrations, or more than four times the original number in the German 

 text. 



The making of this French edition of a great philosophical work 

 has extended over twenty-five years and has involved an amount of 

 painstaking labor such as is seldom assumed by a savant of the high 

 scientific attainments of Dr. de Margerie, a former president of the 

 Geological Society of France. 



The initial volume of the text appeared in 1897 and was introduced 

 by that master-mind which has contributed so much to French and espe- 

 cially Alpine geology, M. Marcel Bertrand; and now the concluding part 

 is most appropriately closed after an interval of twenty-two years by an 

 epilogue from the pen of M. Pierre Termier, likewise a profound student 

 of those problems with which this tour deforce especially deals. There is 

 propriety in here translating a few lines from Bertrand's Preface and 

 Termier 's Epilogue. In the former we read: 



One of our masters said to me one day a propos of a work of one of our 

 colleagues which had greatly interested us, "He is perhaps the one who has 

 best comprehended Suess. " This expression appeared to me to be under its 

 simple and unpremeditated form the most striking tribute to the author of the 



Antlitz der Erie The Antlitz der Erde brings together the work of an 



entire century. It sets forth the state of knowledge acquired about the globe 

 which we inhabit. It shows with samples in hand that the era of groping has 

 passed and that the grand features of the earth's face are now known to us; 

 it determines the frame into which henceforth each new observation can take 



its place and acquire its full value It [Suess 's method] has been 



able to show the relationships and establish the connections from one limit 

 of our hemisphere to the other, which, for example, had not before been per- 

 ceived even from one boundary of France to the other. M. Suess has known 

 how to elevate the fundamental features to a sufficient altitude to be seen above 

 the complex details of their surroundings. 



Dr. de Margerie had brought his labors upon this great work to a 

 conclusion when the hostilities of the world-war were coming to an end 

 with the signing of the armistice. It is altogether natural and proper 

 therefore that M. Termier 's Epilogue should take account of the new 

 race psychology based upon revelations which have struck deep into the 

 souls of us all, and to those of Frenchmen more than of any others. He 

 says: 



