Digital heart book

A long time was spent in gathering statistics, which finally
proved that if the rainfall were distributed there would be just about
enough to water sufficiently the whole surface of the globe. Nature
provided rain enough, but it did not always fall where and when it was
most needed. It seemed to be left with us to find a remedy for this
apparent evil. When I say 'us' in this way I mean our race as a whole, for
most of these changes took place many ages ago.
"Our philosophers had seen so many difficulties removed and improvements
made in things supposed to be fixed that they began, once upon a time, to
assert that rain and snow and the weather in general ought to be subject
to our will. They said that in the advanced state of civilization toward
which we were progressing it would seem to be an anomalous thing that we
should continue to be subjected to the annoyances of so changeable a
tyrant as the weather. We seemed destined to gain control of so many of
the forces of nature that our future mastery in this department looked to
them reasonable.


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