ORGANIC LIFE. 



for periods sufficient to insure life of the order of the 

 burrowing animals. And it is very probable that life 

 of the underground order is developing until today, 

 beneath the earth's surface where heat is sufficient to 

 insure a constant after chemical union sufficient to be- 

 come manifest in the form of an organized life. 



Life of the underground order having come into 

 existence beneath the surface necessitates that it de- 

 velop along the order of the means that brings into 

 being life of the order. Or it develops along the order 

 of condition as in the case of all surface animals. 



Small insects being likely to have been the first 

 form of life to develop on the face of the earth, owing 

 to the highest points of minute dimensions cooling 

 first, and their being small particles of land juting out 

 above the balance of the land would necessitate but a 

 few hours of constant temperatures. And in conse- 

 quence, life of the ephemeral order, bugs and flies and 

 small insects. 



The waters having flowed for some time on the 

 earth would have a tendency to cool off that portion 

 of the land over which they flowed, and consequently 

 would bring into existence a very early order of life. 

 But it is very probable that the birds and fowls of dif- 

 ferent orders did precede the life of the deep. Because 

 the high points would be to a certain extent affected in 

 the cooling by the evaporation of the waters in the cool- 

 ing of the oceans. The high points bringing into 

 existence the birds of the air, owing to keeping a short 

 period of constant temperatures through being exposed 



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