Earth, story of the spoiled boy who set it afire, 2; how much truth science finds in the Phaeton myth, 3; theories as to the earth's origin and how they compare with the Bible story, 17; watching worlds in the making, 5, 6; the sun and his pebble worlds, 6; how you can watch the world turn round, 7; how the continents came up out of the sea, 8, 14; lands the seas have swallowed, 11; reasons for thinking the continents won't go under again, 12; how earth's slowing up helped make mountains, 137 Earthquakes, how growing mountains make them, 86; earthquakes that travel incog., 158; how earthquakes are recorded in the veins of marble, 239; earthquakes and the earth's "faults," 243 Echoes, Arab superstitions about, 187 Electrons, how they act as messenger boys of the universe, 110 Emerson, on the industries of England, 214 England, her heavy losses of land to the sea, 214; how her drowned rivers helped make her great, 224 Eskers, defined, 122 Esparto grass, 176 Europe, how most of her rivers get their start, 73; her ragged outline and the "transgressions" of the sea, 219; Europe's geological biography and her mountain chains, 230 Evolution, was Nature dreaming of man's legs and arms when she designed the dinosaurs? 23; "some call it Evolution and others call it God," 260; answer of Science to the question "whither," 261; why nothing "happens," in the great course of things--The Accident Insurance System of the Universe, 262; kinship of kittens and apple trees, 264; universal acceptance of the evolution theory, 264; the old "special creation" theory, 265; and the mysterious special creation theory that Science has substituted, 274; facts that support the evolution theory; the story of changing forms recorded in the rocks, 265; the "rabbit" that turned into a horse, 266; as to men being descended from monkeys, 267; how evolution proves the world is getting better, 268; how man has risen as he descended, 269; the world that Mother made, 270 Family, the, and civilization, 271 "Faults," geological, defined, 243 Finland, its butterflies, and the left-over butterflies of the Ice Ages, 48 Fiords, how they were made by the Old Men of the Mountain, 254 Florida, her sympathetic sister lakes, 200 Folds, how the story of the crumpling of mountains is told in the veins of marble, 237 Fossils, how they help tell the story of marble, 100 Frost, how it helped build the stone "Temple of the Winds," 33; how it builds boulder walls, 154 Fujiyama, Mt., why it resembles Mount Rainier, 124 Galileo, and the discovery that there are worlds of worlds, 4 Geikie, on the conglomerate boulder as an historian, 230 Geodes, Nature's pebble jewel boxes and how they are made, 101