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Archaeology deals with the cultural history of Homo Sapiens. Back of that comes paleontology, dealing with human or animal remains which have left their impress in geological strata at varying depths...
...Black Oxen is not to be read as a dissection of humanity. It is valuable as an examination of social strata and their relationship. For example, there is the relationship between the generations-three of them -among the elite of New York: frozen dowagers of the Age of Innocence; spiteful younger women; crude little flappers of the jazz age. Equally important is the relationship of the aristocracy of money and birth to that of brains-the "Sophisticates", intellectual dictators of the city (columnists, playwrights, editors, novelists). Finally, the relationship of all these other groups to the subtle, intriguing, hypercivilized society...
...because he possesses these qualities that his opinions on civilization are of value. The belief he here states is that of all social philosophies now featured Individualism is the only true one. By this he means American Individualism; the doctrine that allows every man, unrestricted by class strata or any prejudices, an equal opportunity with others to make his way in the world. It is not, as Mr. Hoover points out, a creed that holds out promises of Utopia or one that can be disseminated by catch phrases, but it is the very essence of freedom and the backbone...
...operators realize in advance the great difference in safety of operations in regions where the productive strata consist of limestone, as in the Lima-Indiana and Mexican fields, from those that are true sandstones or sands, as in Pennsylvania, Kansas and northern Louisiana. While such is not always the case, limestone wells generally decline far more rapidly than sandstone wells. For instance, in the celebrated Ranger fields of north-central Texas, which were advertised in such glowing terms three years ago, very few of the large companies have made money, but enormous sums have beeen lost even by so-called...
...romance of geology, and to have assumed in many cases that geological predictions were infallible. Of course all that the most experienced geologist can do is to give the best professional advice as to where to lease and to drill, based on his superior and scientific knowledge of the strata and of technical conditions in that particular locality. In any case, some underlying conditions must remain unknown until the "sands" are tapped by the drill. The success of operations based on geological predictions ranges all the way from 50 to 90 percent in certain oil producing States, to less than...