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than enough, already to show that no civil engineering 

 course can possibly be complete without it; it is indis- 

 pensable to the student of mining, it is almost as necessary 

 for the metallurgist, and more than good for the biologist 

 himself. For agriculturalists and County Councillors, for 

 architects, and for doctors desirous of qualifying in the 

 matter of hygiene and public health, if it is not an absolute 

 necessity — at all events it is most highly desirable. To 

 the traveller, whether in Britain or abroad, a knowledge 

 of the science adds immensely to the interest and value of 

 what he sees. To the theologian, the student of history, 

 of humanity and of human philosophy, it gives that clear 

 conception of man's place in Nature which it should be 

 their duty to ascertain as much as it is his pride to teach ; 

 and to the so-called educated man at large it presents that 

 broad outlook over the whole realm of Nature which is the 

 natural supplement and correction of his one-sided culture. 



To the landscape painter and the lover of scenery for 

 its own sake there is hardly any need to point out the 

 interest and value of a knowledge of geology. For the 

 words of Hugh Miller himself — no mean judge of geology 

 or landscape — " Geology may be properly regarded as the 

 science of landscape. It is to the landscape painter what 

 anatomy is to the historic one, or to the sculptor. In the 

 singularly rich and variously compounded prospects of 

 our country there is scarce a single trait that cannot be 

 resolved into some geological peculiarity in the country's 

 framework, and which does not bear witness to some 

 striking event in its physical history. Its landscapes are 

 tablets roughened and engraved, like the tablets of 

 Nineveh with the records of the past." 



But it has been said, and said often, that the study of 

 geology is destructive of man's feeling for beauty and 

 mystery, and fatal to the exercise of the imagination and 



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