INDEX 
Earthquakes, 171, 172. 
El Capitan, 73. 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quoted, 97, 
98, 187, 245; a follower of Agas- 
siz, 98. 
Environment, influence of, 214, 215. 
Eohippus, 176. 
Erosion, in the Hawaiian Islands, 
59, 135, 146-148; its part in shap- 
ing the earth’s surface, 91;, slow- 
ness of its work, 182-186. 
Evolution, the long road of, 1-38; 
belief and disbelief in the doctrine, 
1-7; adds greatly to the wonder of 
life, 3; length of time implied by, 
7-11; endless beginning and end- 
less ending, 12; from the simple 
to the complex, 23, 24; concen- 
trates along certain lines, 36; 
hard to get on intimate terms 
with, 177; makes the universe 
alive, 187; the tide at the full, 192, 
193; Walt Whitman as an evolu- 
tionist, 197; hindrances to a belief 
in, 198-205; the largest general- 
ization of the modern mind, 205; 
not a godless doctrine, 212; as a 
prestidigitator, 213, 214; makes 
the world over for us, 228; the 
, impulse in, 236.4; 
Faith, scientific, 175-186. 
Fire, here before man, 111. 
First Cause, 217-219. 
Frear, Mary Dillingham, quoted, 
119; 125; a walk with, 128-130. 
Frear, Walter Francis, 125; a walk 
with, 128-130. 
Generalization, in evolution, 230. 
Geologic time, figured under the 
symbol of a year, 21, 22; and 
chronological time, 90, 91; clock 
of, 95; and human history, 97; 
periods of, 116, 117; powers of, 
174; vastness of, 199, 200. 
Geologist, the, his scientific imagina- 
tion, 87; interpreter of the records 
of the rocks, 88; his daring affirm- 
ations,,89; deals with big figures, 
97. 
Geology, in the East and in the 
West, 39-45; of the Grand Cafion,; 
51-55, 57-65, 67-69; of the 
Yosemite, 79-83; the world as 
seen in the light of, 85-117. See 
also Earth, Evolution, and Rocks. 
Geosyncline, 94. 
Gigantic, Nature’s experiments with 
the, 16-18, 223. 
Glacial periods, gradual approach 
of the Pleistocene winter, 113, 
114. 
Glaciation, Agassiz’s discovery, 
157; southern limit in United 
States, 158, 159; work of the ice- 
sheet, 159, 160; evidence near 
home, 161-163; flowing of the 
ice-sheet, 164, 165. 
Glenwood, Hawaii, 149, 150. 
Goats, wild, 138, 143. 
God, immanent in his universe, 179, 
199. 
“Good in everything,” 258, 259. ' 
Grand Cafion, the, first impressions, 
46-49; architectural features and 
suggestions, 49-54; geology, 51- 
55, 57-65, 67-69; cleanness, 55; 
sense of depth of, 56; look of 
ordered strength, 56, 57; descent 
into, 65-70; flowers and a bird- 
song in, 70; contrasted with 
Yosemite, 75-78. 
Granite, the Adam rock, 102, 103; 
dissolution of, 108. 
Guava, 135. 
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich, 7, 25, 
235. 
Haleakala, a visit to, 133-146. 
Halemaumau, 151. 
Half Dome, 73. 
Hau-tree, 126, 127. 
Hawaii, island of, 148, 148; visit to, 
149-155. 
Hawaiian Islands, erosion in, 59, 
135, 146-148; shape of valleys in, 
81; origin of, 116; a visit to, 119- 
155; lines by Mary Dillingham 
Frear on, 119; approach to, 119- 
121; land shells of, 129, 130; birds 
in, 132, 133, 143, 151; mosquitoes 
in, 136. 
Hawaiian language, 122. 
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