Excerpt from Commerce and Industry Man's small share of the universe. - A certain tribe of microbes is said to live only in the tiny crack of space that lies between the surface of our teeth and the film of moisture that clings to them. Outside of this space the microbe is like a man travelling through a fiery desert or an icy waste. This film home sounds like a very small place in which hosts of beings must be born, grow and produce their young, but when we look at ourselves, we can see that man is very much like this ...
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Excerpt from Commerce and Industry Man's small share of the universe. - A certain tribe of microbes is said to live only in the tiny crack of space that lies between the surface of our teeth and the film of moisture that clings to them. Outside of this space the microbe is like a man travelling through a fiery desert or an icy waste. This film home sounds like a very small place in which hosts of beings must be born, grow and produce their young, but when we look at ourselves, we can see that man is very much like this little enemy that sends him to the dentist. It is a very tiny part of the universe that must serve as the home of man. Look at the limitless space that astronomers call the universe. Thousands, perhaps millions of suns float through it, some of them larger than our own sun. One speck of this vast realm is our little solar system, our vast sun with eight planets swinging round it and warmed by it. So far as we know this planet is the only place where men could live in all this vast universe of worlds, even if we could freely visit every part. Further, we certainly know that there is a very small part of this, our own world, on which we can live. No man has been 300 feet beneath the surface of the sea and lived. The greatest height man has been able to climb is not five miles above the level of the sea. Our new-found ability to fly costs enough effort, cash and danger to Show us that after all we must spend most of our time crawling about the surface of this our world. We cannot go much below or much above that surface. Few parts of the earth are good. - Yet further than this, examina tion of the earth's surface shows that within this little narrow sur face belt which may, indeed be likened to the microbe's home in the film of a tooth, most of the land for one reason or another does not seem to be a very good place for us to make our homes. Some of it is too hot, some of it is too cold, some of it is too wet, some of it is too dry, some of it is too high. Thus we find that because of thevaried goodness of the earth as home for man there are few places Where men are many and many places where men are few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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