12 THE OCEAN RIVER 



development into a single unit of expansion for western man, 

 we shall be able to visualize ourselves and nature as a lawful 

 entity, a necessary partnership that has purpose and design in 

 spite of the apparent chaos in the world around us. 



No single book such as ours can hope to do more than frame 

 the picture. We hope we have brought the forces and unan- 

 swered mysteries of the Ocean River into a brief focus so that 

 from here on the reader may chart his own pathway into the 

 still largely undiscovered country of the frontier of the sea. 



