1392. GOOD OUT OF SEEMING EVIL: Terrible and Destructive Volcanic Forces Part of a Wise Economy.
It may well be doubted whether the annual average of destruction to life and property caused by all kinds of subterranean action exceeds that produced either by floods or by hurricanes. Yet we know that the circulation of water and air over our globe are beneficial and necessary operations, and that the mischief occasionally wrought by the moving bodies of water and air is quite insignificant compared with the good which they effect. In the same way, we shall be able to show that the subterranean energies are necessary to the continued existence of our globe as a place fitted for the habitation of living beings, and that the mischievous and destructive effects of these energies bear but a small and insignificant proportion to the beneficial results with which they must be credited.
JUDD Volcanoes, ch. 10, p. 282. (A., 1899.)













