170 THE ORIGIN OP CREATION. 



way to the surface ; there they meet other gases, which, "by com- 

 bining form fog, clouds, rain or snow, that descends as water, 

 and percolates back again. On the surface of the earth vegetation 

 is forced out, as from a centre, by the magnetic force of the 

 escaping mineral gas, and this again exhaling a vegetable gas 

 into the lower atmosphere, reciprocates with the rising mineral 

 gases and forms dew, or cloud and rain. 



Or, let us take for consideration the bottom of the ocean. 

 The mineral gases from the interior of the earth are forced into 

 the water, and thence through the whole mass of it ; thus 

 the warm vegetable atoms which are at the surface, left from 

 evaporation and from rivers running into it, are reciprocated 

 with, or neutralized and purified. The surface of the water, 

 again, reciprocates by evaporation with the lower atmosphere, 

 and that again with the higher, thus forming, as said before, 

 rain, and cloud etc. Throughout the whole extent of our 

 planet, therefore, from the interior of its solid body to the 

 utmost verge of the atmosphere (for we show that meteors are 

 caused by reciprocation also) there is a continuous action ever 

 taking place, forming, dissolving, and re-forming, and keeping 

 up a universal reciprocal circulation which prevents stagnation 

 of any kind. 



For any one to suppose that nature works in the slow fashion 

 of causing all the impure water distributed over the surface of 

 the ocean, to creep to the Poles before it can be purified again, is 

 egregious folly ; for it is evident on the face of it that such is 

 not the case. To bring the matter home, does Dr. Carpenter 

 really mean to say, that if we pour a pail full of slops into tho 

 sea, it will require to float onward to the Arctic Pole before 

 it can be changed ? ~VVe should certainly say not, for in the 

 slops and in the salt water, are the two different classes of atoms, 



