Conservation of the Soil

Abstract

IN many countries distant from the storm centre of world politics the perpetual war between man and Nature has in the last two decades reached an acute phase. The maladjustment between an established form of human society that had transplanted itself to the unwonted environments of the New World had culminated in the remarkable phenomenon of soil erosion, the widespread disappearance of the very basis of life itself. Nowhere did the capitalistic form of society that colonized the world from its homeland in Europe take firmer root or grow more lustily than in the United States, and nowhere has soil erosion been more virulent, or is having such far-reaching effects on the structure of society. Soil Conservation By Hugh Hammond Bennett. (McGraw-Hill Series in Geography.) Pp. xvii + 993. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1940.) 40s.