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the days preceding, the temperature had been very low"; said to 

 have been of a species common in the south of France. In La 

 Science Pour Tons, 14-183, it is said that with these larvae there 

 were developed insects. 



L'Astronomie, 1890-313: 



That, upon the last of January, 1890, there fell, in a great tem- 

 pest, in Switzerland, incalculable numbers of larvae: soar* black 

 and some yellow; numbers so great that hosts of birds were at- 

 tracted. 



Altogether we regard this as one of our neatest expressions for 

 external origins and against the whirlwind-explanation. If an ex- 

 clusionist says that, in January, larvae were precisely and pains- 

 takingly picked out of frozen ground, in incalculable numbers, he 

 thinks of a tremendous force disregarding its refinements: then 

 if origin and precipitation be not far apart, what becomes of an 

 infinitude of other debris, conceiving of no time for segregation? 



If he thinks of a long translation all the way from the south of 

 France to Upper Savoy, he may think then of a very fine sorting 

 over by differences of specific gravity but in such a fine selec- 

 tion, larvae would be separated from developed insects. 



As to differences in specific gravity the yellow larvae that fell 

 in Switzerland Jan., 1890, were three times the size of the black 

 larvae that fell with them. In accounts of this occurrence, there is 

 no denial of the fall. 



Or that a whirlwind never brought them together and held them 

 together and precipitated them and only them together 



That they came from Genesistrine. 



There's no escape from it. We'll be persecuted for it. Take it or 

 leave it 



Genesistrine. 



The notion is that there is somewhere aloft a place of origin of life 

 relatively to this earth. Whether it's the planet Genesistrine, or the 

 moon, or a vast amorphous region super-jacent to this earth, or an 

 island in the Super-Sargasso Sea, should perhaps be left to the 

 researches of other super or extra geographers. That the first 

 unicellular organisms may have come here from Genesistrine or 

 that men or anthropomorphic beings may have come here before 

 amoebae: that, upon Genesistrine, there may have been an evolution 

 expressible in conventional biologic terms, but that evolution upon 

 this earth has been like evolution in modern Japan induced by 

 external influences; that evolution, as a whole, upon this earth, 



