CATACLYSMS. 



materials? Would the foreign body have rendered the 

 former beds of oceans mountain tops, by having driven 

 another portion of the earth's crust inward, making a 

 deep hole in which the waters would bed? Would the 

 jolt from the foreign body have rendered portions of 

 former forests so low as to go beneath the waves of the 

 new ocean bed? Would the jolt from the foreign body 

 cause the twisting of the greater portion of the earth's 

 crust? Would the jolt of the foreign body bury large 

 forests beneath the twisted surface of the earth? 



It appears very reasonable that all these things 

 could have come to pass by the infliction of the body 

 from without. And it not only seems reasonable that it 

 did occur, but it seems as if there is no way in nature to 

 prevent it from occurring again whenever the earth 

 shall have cooled so as not to admit of the sustaining of 

 a body of weight in space. What is more, it is natural 

 that it should have come to pass, and more than certain 

 that the moon will add to the life of the earth in the 

 same way, and millions of years later Mars will again 

 add to the earth's life in the same way. 



It is very likely that the body that was precipi- 

 tated upon the earth was much nearer than the moon is 

 at the present day at the time of its final collapse upon 

 the earth. The earth losing the power of revolution, 

 and along with revolution a loss of the power to reflect 

 the rays that would buoy up the body would necessitate 

 that the body would sink nearer to the earth. 



It having sunk nearer to the earth until the power to 

 withhold it was less than its weight in relativity. And 



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