VOLCANOES. 



toward the nucleus, owing to least resistance, and 

 thereby it will expend itself inward in adding to 

 the heat of the central gaseous medium, or the gaseous 

 centre which makes the earth buoyant so as to choose its 

 line of action between heat and cold in revolving about 

 the sun. 



Volcanos are thereby caused by heat and cold act- 

 ing upon the properties of matter, cold causing com- 

 pression of crust, compression of crust generating fric- 

 tion within the particles of matter. Result, expansion 

 or movement tending to dispersal, which is heat. Heat 

 being greater than cold in the given locality, and in 

 consequence liberation of same into space. 



CHAPTER XII 



ORGANIC LIFE IN THE BEGINNING, IN- 

 CLUDING THE LIFE OF MANKIND, 

 ALONG WITH FORMS OF ANIMAL LIFE. 



The question of life in the beginning has always been 

 considered beyond the power of man's conception in the 

 solving, yet there is nothing more than a question of 

 temperature in the cooling of the materials that make 

 up a world, to be considered in rendering the problem 

 very clear to us. 



As the conception of life, considered in its natural 



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