Science: Bottomward

More and more often you hear men of Science declare that, as animal life crawled out of the water world in the beginning, so shall man, highest animal, some day return to the sea, prayerful, hungry, seeking food, fuel, riches. Gone is "Mother" Earth with other myths. Ocean they say, is the mother element.

Dr, Hans Hartman of Manhattan is a man who goes to the bottom of things. He has cogitated the fact that more than seven tenths of the earth's surface is submarine territory, on the average only three or four miles...

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