HEAT AND COLD 



CHAPTER I 



THE BEGINNING OF THINGS EARTHLY. 



Out of a mist of gases the creation of worlds was 

 but the work of nature along the lines of our daily ob- 

 servation in the powers of nature displayed upon the 

 earth. Because all of nature's products can be reduced 

 to the gaseous form by the application of a sufficient 

 amount of heat. And as all the stars in the heavens 

 conclusively show that the heat is present in the heav- 

 ens. And all the planets show by their appearance that 

 they each had a greater temperature at a former time. 



Consequently, we must infer from what we see on 

 our own planet that they each had a greater tempera- 

 ture in years gone by. Greater temperature spells gases 

 at some distant period in the world's history. 



Now, to transport ourselves to the gaseous world 

 and let us live in fancy within the changes that had to 

 transpire within the conditions then existing. First, 

 gases made from the reduction of one property of a 

 condensing temperature would condense into a solid 

 or semi-solid property, in advance of the gases of a 

 property of a higher temperature of condensation. And 

 in consequence, this is now our law for the making up 

 of our planet out of the gases. 



Second, our researches into the qualities displayed 

 by nature render it very evident that matter is inde- 



