ORGANIC LIFE. 



Now, why should we doubt the means of the presence 

 of life in the beginning on our little planet? 



The most skeptical will readily admit that life now 

 in the production by means we observe daily will have 

 to await a given temperature. When the temperature 

 has arrived, there must be certain chemical properties 

 present \vhich have a chemical affinity for each other. 

 There must be a union of the chemical properties, and 

 it must be within the given temperature. Then there 

 must be a period of constant or nearly constant tem- 

 perature of a lower grade than the temperature of 

 union. This temperature being the period of incuba- 

 tion, or dormancy before the organism thoroughly de- 

 velops into a knowing, breathing entity, or becomes 

 cognizant of its life. 



Can man be possibly so blunt of imaginative con- 

 ception as to believe that every part of this process was 

 not duplicated in the cooling of a great planet? Can 

 man be possibly so blunt of conception as to believe in 

 the face of all his knowledge of the properties of matter 

 that the chemical properties were not in existence at 

 that time? 



All the properties that go to make up the human 

 organism with the exception of the mineral properties 

 range around the temperature of the germinating pro- 

 cess, when considered in the line of precipitating of 

 same in the building of the planet. Such properties as 

 are of the mineral order in the make-up of the organism 

 act as catalyzers within the given temperatures neces- 

 sary to the germination of life, causing the other prop- 



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