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After reminding readers that drift still lacked a driving mechanism, Willis at-
tacked from a different direction,
Fellow scientists who are not geologists cannot be expected to know that the geology upon
which the protagonists of the Theory rest assumptions is as antiquated as pre-Curie physics.
Wegener and his successors are disciples of Eduard Suess . . . a charming, genial German who
never traveled far, but assembled the observations of others and from them constructed specu-
lations regarding the face of the Earth. He gravely lacked critical faculty.
(510)
Thus Willis, not content merely to insult Suess, who was not a German but an Aus-
trian, sanksolowastofindWegener,abraveexplorer andscientist whodiedalone
on the Greenland ice, guilty by association with an alleged armchair geologist.
