L ANIMAL ENERGY 



/-|-VHE earth and its atmosphere are constantly subjected 

 A to two universal forces, gravitation and radiant and 

 electric energy from the sun. Gravitation brought the fluid 

 part of the earth the water into final equilibrium in the 

 great oceans. Gravitation brought soluble soil to the ocean 

 as a basis upon which the radiant and electric energy from 

 the sun produced organic life. 



Gravitation is so constant, so powerful that cold-blooded 

 animals on the land are scarcely able to lift their bodies 

 from the ground. This same force, universal and continuous, 

 has been a factor in the high development of the brain, 

 heart, thyroid, and adrenal-sympathetic system, enabling 

 the warm-blooded animals of the earth and the birds of the 

 air to raise their bodies against gravity and to move at 

 various speeds. 



The second universal force essential to the genesis and 

 the work of protoplasm is solar energy. Solar energy pours 

 down upon the earth, and lightning and terrestrial electric- 

 ity passing through the air fix nitrogen, thereby producing 

 a continual stream of fixed nitrogen, the basis of protoplasm. 



The intensity of the energy put into the nitrogen fraction 

 by lightning endows the nitrogen fraction with the highest 

 energy known; hence, generally speaking, the nitrogen frac- 

 tion becomes the positive element, and the carbon fraction 

 becomes the negative element in the synthesis of life. 

 These nitrogen and carbon fractions with their positive and 

 negative signs of charge are continuously coalescing in 

 every part of the earth, on the land, in the air, and in the 

 sea, each plant and each animal growing in accordance 

 with its use of energy. Each form rises as far as its food 

 supply and energy will carry it and then breaks down with 

 dispersion of the energy that it received, thus entering 

 dissolution and death. 



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