Volume 1

Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee.

Date:
1912-1913
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Credit: Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE PAGE GROUP 1—THE UNIVERSE ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE ? Millions of Other Worlds than Ours—Has Man a Com panion in His Journey Through the Heavens ? 9 POWER BEYOND OUR DREAMS The Marvel of Creation that Grows More and More the Deeper We See into It 1-9 THE ONENESS OF ALL THINGS The Mighty Scheme in which Stars and Continents and the House You Live in are Held Together as One.. .. 257 THE ETERNAL MILLS OF GOD The Mighty Energy that Drives the World-Machine, and the Fear that the World will Run Down 385 ALL THINGS ARE CHANGING The Universe of To-day is not the Universe of To morrow—“ Nothing is Constant hut Change ” 513 THE ULTIMATE UNIVERSE The Mystery of the Two Worlds. What is Mind ? No matter. What is Matter ? Never mind 6*1 GROUP 2—THE EARTH THE BIRTH OF THE EARTH The Amazing Beginning of the Flying Ball on which We Ride Thousands of Millions of Miles.. 19 ALL THE WORLD ON FIRE The Crust of the Earth—How Hard We Know It is, How Thick We Guess It is, and How Old We Think It is 139 THE EARTH’S UPS AND DOWNS The Great Upheaval in which Mountains Rose Out of the Sea and the Ocean Depths were Formed 2(i7 EARTH’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Rocks which are as Enthralling as a Novel if We Know how to Read Them 395 THE EARTH’S FOUNDATIONS The New Knowledge of the Elements and the Amazing Things that Happen when They Come Together 523 INSIDE THE EARTH’S CRUST The Metals with which “ Man has Hacked and Blazed His Way Through the Dark Jungles of Barbarism ”.. 019 GROUP 3—LIFE THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES The Preparation of the Stage for the Great Play of Life in the Universal Theatre 27 CAN MEN CREATE LIFE ? The Power which in Its Simplest Form is More Amaz ing than a Man-of-War 151 THE VERY HOME OF LIFE A Peep into the Wonder-House which All Life Inhabits —The Holy of Holies of All Living Things 277 WHY THE BODY MUST DIE The Meaning of Physical Death in the Scheme of Nature, and the Place of the Individual in the Scale of Ascending Life 407 LIFE REPRODUCES ITSELF The Marvellous Processes by which Life Divides and Multiplies and Builds Up Every Living Race 531 PAGE THE MYSTERY OF SEX the Antiquity of Sex and Its Purpose in Life—Man the Innovator and the Liberal ; Woman the Maintainer and the Conservative 639 GROUP 4—PLANT LIFE THE EARTH’S INVISIBLE ARMY The Battles that No Eye Can See, which Make Gardens and Forests, and Keep the Earth Alive 37 THE SOIL FROM AGE TO AGE The Making of the Thin Coating of the Earth upon which All Life and Civilisation Depend 101 WHAT THE SOIL IS MADE OF The Qualities and Forces for Ever Working Under Our Feet to Sustain the Life of a Garden 285 MOTHER EARTH’S CUPBOARD The Storehouse in which Food for Plant Life is Kept, and How It is Constantly Replenished 415 WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SOIL The Extraordainry Story of the Busy Workers who Toil Unseen, and Transform the Surface of the Earth 541 THE POWER OF THE SOIL The Scientific Cultivation of the Earth and Its Extra ordinary Possibilities for the Farmer 609 GROUP 5 ANIMAL LIFE RIVALS FOR THE MASTERY The Early Days of the World, when Man and the Mastodon Set Out Together 47 STRANGE THINGS LIKE MEN The Curious, Intelligent, and Terrible Creatures which Parted Company from Man in the Twilight of the World 169 EVOLUTION BEFORE OUR EYES The Way in which the Life of the Animal Kingdom Now Helps to Solve the Mystery of the Past 293 THE ANIMALS OF TERROR Leading Members of the Great Cat Family—Life and Habits of Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars, Cheetahs 425 SAVAGES AT OUR GATES The Life-Stories of Hyenas, Wolves, Jackals, Dingoes, Foxes, and Wild Dogs 549 THE BEAR AND HIS COUSINS The Principal Species of Bears and Their Close Allies— the Pandas, Raccoons, and Kinkajou 679 GROUP 6—MAN THE MASTER OF THE EARTH The Difference that Makes the Difference in Man—How He Set Free His Hands and Became Lord of Creation .. 57 THE SEARCH FOR AN ANCESTOR The Mystery of Man’s Beginning, His Achievement of Supremacy, and His Far-Off Allies in the Dim Mists of Time 183 THE MAN IN THE TREE-TOPS What We Know and What We can Imagine about Robert Louis Stevenson’s “ Probably Arboreal ” .... 307 THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLES Qualities of the Lower Races of Mankind, and the Invasion of Their Territories by Civilisation 437 in