World-Power and Evolution
Ellsworth Huntington
Read by Leon Harvey
Every important aspect of human knowledge must be considered in its relation to both space and time. In "Civilization and Climate" the problem of the effect of physical environment upon human progress was discussed in its relation to space. It was shown that the distribution of civilization upon the earth's surface is closely in harmony with the distribution of climatic energy, which appears to be the most important factor in physical environment. In the present volume the same problem is considered in its relation to time. Beginning with the present day we find that from year to year business activities vary in extraordinary harmony with health. Further study shows that variations in health from year to year depend upon the weather far more than upon any other single factor. - Summary by Ellsworth Huntington (7 hr 35 min)
Chapters
Preface | 5:05 | Read by Leon Harvey |
I. The Chart of Evolution | 20:44 | Read by Leon Harvey |
II. Health and Business | 30:31 | Read by Leon Harvey |
III. Business Cycles in Foreign Countries | 14:57 | Read by Leon Harvey |
IV. How Health does its Work | 13:30 | Read by Leon Harvey |
V. Climate and Health | 28:27 | Read by Leon Harvey |
VI. The Importance of Variability | 31:35 | Read by Leon Harvey |
VII. The Voyage of Evolution | 35:59 | Read by Leon Harvey |
VIII. The Environment of Mental Evolution | 45:52 | Read by Leon Harvey |
IX. The Origin of New Types among Animals | 31:17 | Read by Leon Harvey |
X. The Origin of New Types among Men | 44:41 | Read by Leon Harvey |
XI. The Example of Rome | 41:44 | Read by Leon Harvey |
XII. The Problem of Turkey | 37:30 | Read by Leon Harvey |
XIII. Germany and Her Neighbors | 31:36 | Read by Leon Harvey |
Appendix | 42:28 | Read by Leon Harvey |