EAETHQUAKES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Relationship of man to nature — The aspect of a country is dependent 

 on geological phenomena — Earthquakes an important geological 

 phenomenon — Relationship of seismology to the sciences and arts — ■ 

 Earth movements other than earthquakes—Seismological literature 

 — (Writings of Perrey, Mallet, Eastern writings, the Philosophical 

 Transactions of the Royal Society, the ' Gentleman's Magazine,' the 

 Bible, Herodotus, Phny, Plopkins, Von Hoff, Humboldt, Schmidt, 

 Seebach, Lasaulx, Fuchs, Palmieri, Bertelli, Seismological Society 

 of Japan) — Seismological terminology. 



In bygone superstitious times lightning and thunder were 

 regarded as supernatural visitations. But as these phe- 

 nomena became better understood, and men learned how 

 to avoid their destructive power, the superstition was 

 gradually dispelled. Thus it is with Earthquakes : the 

 more clearly they are understood, the more confident in 

 the universality of law will man become, and the more 

 will his mental condition be advanced. 



In his ' History of Civilisation in England,' Buckle 

 has laid considerable stress upon the manner in which 

 earthquakes, volcanoes, and other of the more terrible 

 forms iu which the workings of nature reveal themselves 



