Man's abject fear of earthquakes is helping him devise a control system to mitigate their impact on buildings. "THERE IS no natural phenomenon which is held by all mankind in greater dread than earthquakes. Our ideas of permanence, solidity and strength are based upon the condition of the earth as we daily see it; so that when the firm ground shakes under us, there naturally comes over the mind a feeling of abject helplessness."
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