CHAPTER II. 

 INORGANIC EVOLUTION. 



In the preceding chapter we attempted to show by a brief 

 exposition of the work of Sir Norman Lockyer that many 

 of the elements of matter as they exist in the sun and stars 

 are different from, and simpler than, these same elements as 

 we know them on earth. These simplified substances are 

 called proto-elements and the process by which they are 

 produced is dissociation owing to the super-intensity of the 

 solar and stellar heat. 



We now propose to show in accordance with the work of 

 the same investigator that this dissociation according to tem- 

 perature results in a stupendous evolution of inorganic mat- 

 ter, besides which organic evolution is the affair of a day, 

 and to which it is a mere appendix. 



By organic evolution we mean that the vast multitudes 

 of plants and animals as they exist to-day are not specially 

 created but that they have all resulted from older, simpler 

 forms, and these from simpler still, and these again from 

 still simpler, down and down to some ancient simple type 

 from which they have all probably evolved. So by inorganic 

 evolution, we mean that the eighty odd elements of matter 

 as we know them on earth to-day were not specially created, 

 but that like the plants and animals, they have truly evolved, 

 from simpler,' and still simpler, types back to some really 

 simple element from which they have all evolved through 

 infinite aeons gone by. Futhermore we wish to show that 

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