Malaya and Southeast Asia in the pattern of Continental Drift

Abstract

To the horizon that lifts before us, To the horizon that ever recedes, To the horizon that ever draws near, To the horizon that causes doubt, To the horizon that instills dread, To the horizon with unknown power, To the horizon not hitherto pierced,-from a Polynesian sea-chant At a· specified time the earth can have had just one configuration. But the earth supplies no direct information about this. We are like a. judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the. truth from circumstantial evidence. All the proofs we ~ muster have the deceptive character of this· type of evidence. How would we assess a judge who based his decision on part of the available data only?