Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

If I as a geologist were called upon to explain briefly our modern ideas of the origin of the earth and the development of life on it to a simple, pas- toral people, such as the tribes to whom the Book of Genesis was addressed, I could hardly do better than follow rather closely much of the language of the first chapter of Genesis.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men