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pure for the habitation of the higher classes of 

 animals. 



And now, the temperature of the waters being 

 sufficiently reduced, and the atmosphere having 

 been prepared to impart vitality to the higher 

 classes of organized beings, the design of the 

 Great Architect of the universe was to be further 

 developed, and the organization of living ani- 

 mals commenced. The waters teemed with the 

 embryo germs of animals, in the shape of ani- 

 malcula, of all forms, each adapted to fit it 

 for the place to be occupied by it, in the situa- 

 tion of the habitable globe at that time. The 

 molecules of matter were arranged and shaped 

 by the unerring laws designed for them in the 

 beginning ; and they were endued with life, and 

 motion, and instinct. The waters became ani- 

 mated with them. The instinctive impulse for 

 food, generated in them a spirit of war ; and 

 they fell upon and devoured each other, the 

 stronger overcoming the weaker. Those that 



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