Science After the Charleston Earthquake
THE Christian at Work in its remarks upon the late Charleston earthquake, cites “Major Powell, who has given the subject of seismic convulsions careful study,” to the effect that “the Atlantic Coast must henceforth be considered within the earthquake region.” Well, we shouldn’t wonder if it must! since an earthquake has shaken the Atlantic Coast and nearly all the rest of the country east of the Mississippi River. But what a wonderful thing is science, and especially a scientific knowledge of it. It enables a person to state so wisely and with such majestic weight of authority, the existence of facts after they are known to every man, woman, and child in all the country.