TY - JOUR AU - McKinsey, Elizabeth AB - 1568 The Journal of American History March 2002 ulating their worlds. Because Jacoby resists ro- rope a decade earlier. Opposing the material- manticizing any group in this history, his nu- ism of modern science and metropolitan cul- anced analysis renders a troubling but useful ture, Anthroposophists believed that visible review of the social and environmental legacy nature was shadowed by “etheric nature” and of conservation that also informs current con- that every natural organism had one or several tests. This is an excellent and timely book. corresponding spirits operating in unseen ways. Subearthly and supersensible forces de- Joseph E. Taylor III termined natural and human events. For Iowa State University them, natural forces did not lead to progress Ames, Iowa (as they did for evolutionary Naturalists); they must be controlled and harnessed to humanly Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist determined higher purposes. Myth in America. By Kevin Dann. (New Bruns- The Great Border Fault is the name of the wick: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xvi, 294 tectonic fault line that happens to run be- pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2790-2.) tween the two locales described in the book, but Dann makes it a metaphor for the incom- Across the TI - Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America JO - The Journal of American History DO - 10.2307/2700699 DA - 2002-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/across-the-great-border-fault-the-naturalist-myth-in-america-0ZW3TTL8el SP - 1568 EP - 1568 VL - 88 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -