My experiments with volcanoesJaggar, Thomas Augustus
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My experiments with volcanoes
Jaggar, Thomas Augustus
Geologists -- Biography; Volcanoes
All this is outcome of gravitation. It extends from the first eddies of
hydrogen in outer space to the final rotation of the earth. The final
hydrogen, with carbon, made life on the earth. The five elements of
volcanic gas are identical with the five elements of organic chemistry.
Dr. Hoyle mistakenly concludes that we have no clue to our own fate.
But he points out that the universe is continuous creation. Our picture
is one instant of time in an everlasting now. Mind is an everlasting
unit beyond which we cannot go.
It is illogical to pay any attention to existence after death unless
we pay equal attention to existence before birth. All is continuous
creation. The making of hydrogen is just as true within the creation
of life as within the universe. Life is under gravitation. Gravitation
controls the instantaneous moving picture, even the emergence of life
from volcanic gases under enormous water pressure at sea bottom. It
is just as much subject to experiment as the outer boundary of the
universe.
Life is an end product; and it thinks, worships, and experiments.
Treating life and volcanoes as end products of Hoyle’s universe makes
science fundamentally cosmology.
One final comment, after looking at sea bottom eruptions through all
the ages. Continental life came out of the sea, and original life comes
continually from the earth core. This gives new dignity to the future
search for global action on the sea bottom.
The “emergent evolution” of Lloyd Morgan makes much of mutation as
accounting for progress from unconscious life to consciousness,
consciousness to memory, memory to reasoning, and reasoning to
spirituality. Each one of these is a new mutation, in the same sense as
a new fruit by Burbank. The first unconscious life may be considered
a mutation from the inorganic of the globe. The totally unknown
pressure-temperature conditions of volcanic eruption through the
cracking earth of ocean bottom, and the ground waters under the ocean,
lend a final dignity to exploration of that frontier.
Hoyle writes that the ultimate goal of the New Cosmology is continuous
creation in outer space. The ultimate goal of the New Volcanology is
continuous creation in oceanic depths.
INDEX
A
=aa=, 54, 67, 78, 104, 121, 124, 125, 129, 148, 174
Abbot, 159
Absaroka Range, 8
Adak Harbor, 141
Adams, C. E., 110
Africa, 181, 182
Agassiz, Alexander, 20, 25, 55, 65, 72, 164
Agassiz Museum, 17, 19
Aghileen Pinnacles, 140
Agricultural Experiment Station, Kodiak, 138
Agua cone, 81
Akutan Island, 154
Alaska, 30–31, 55, 72–75, 81, 82, 84, 110, 114, 117, 127, 137–145,
154, 169, 172, 173, 183
-- expeditions to, 55, 72–75, 84, 138
Alaska Commercial Company, 141
Albatross (ship), 170
Aleutian arc, 82
Aleutian eruptions, 169
Aleutian Geographical Observatory, 142
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