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cept of the yielding nature of the elastico-rigid state of. 

 matter; (4) that the relations of crystalline organization 

 to atomic and molecular organization is more intimate 

 than appeared nnder the old view and hence the crystal- 

 line state is more fundamental and presumably more per- 

 vasive than heretofore supposed; (5) that the proportion 

 of heat energy in the earth to 4;ne organizing and main- 

 taining energies has been greatly exaggerated; (6) that 

 the new concept of an open dynamic structure clears away 

 many of the seeming obstacles to idiomolecular action; 

 and (7) finally, a concrete sketch is given of the way in 

 which idiomolecular readjustments act under relatively 

 low stresses in producing deformative movement without 

 involving the liquid state. The whole working concept 

 has the nature of indefinite capabilities of compression, 

 deformation and metamorphism by means of a system of 

 interchanges facilitated by the. open revolutional mechan- 

 ism of the constituent atoms, and molecules. It is there- 

 fore responsive to every force brought to bear upon it. It 

 is a yield system par excellence and yet a resisting system 

 of the dynamic type with fixed forms. With such a basal 

 view, it is impossible for me to entertain such notions of 

 intractability as those assigned me. 



Substitution of part for the whole. — It seems necessary 

 to take notice of another phase of this statement relative 

 to my views, to wit : 



"Now Chamberlin 's interpretation of this rigidity — that is 

 the rigidity shown under tidal stress and seismic vibrations, 

 implies," etc. 



This naturally carries the impression that my interpre- 

 tation of rigidity has been based solely upon tidal stresses 

 and seismic vibrations, whereas in the very first specifica- 

 tion of the paper professedly under critical review, I men- 

 tion in addition to tidal and seismic evidence, l ' nutation 

 and collateral evidences." The following from the paper 

 just cited shows the way in which I usually put my view : 8 



"Tidal 9 and nutational 10 evidences concur in indicating a 



8 Diastrophism and the Formative Processes : XV. The Self -Compression 

 of the Earth as a Problem of Energy, Jour. Geol., vol. 29, pp. 691-92, 1921. 



9 A. A. Michelson and Henry G. Gale: "The Eigidity of the Earth," 

 Jour. Geol., vol. 27, pp. 585-601, 1919. 



10 W. Schweydar : ' ' Ueber die Elastizitat der Erde, ' ' Naturwissenschaf - 

 ten, Part 38. Potsdam, Germany, 1917. 



