and

Its Consequences

Being lectures in the course on Patriotism delivered at
the University of Pittsburgh during the
summer session of 1918

By

William Herbert Hobbs

Professor of Geology in the University of Michigan
Author of " Earthquakes,"
"Characteristics of Existing Glaciers,"
"Earth Features and their Meaning," etc.

With an Introduction by

Theodore Roosevelt

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press

COPYRIGHT, 1919

BY

WILLIAM HERBERT HOBBS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

To

MAJOR-GENERAL LEONARD WOOD, U. S. A.

MEDAL OF HONOR

THE AMERICAN LORD Roberts

WHO SOUNDED IN UNWILLING EARS AND TO AN ATROPHIED NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS THE CALL TO ARMS OF THE COMING CONFLICT,

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR