ORGANIC LIFE. 



The dividing line between the oviparous and the 

 viviparous animal kingdom can be conclusively attrib- 

 uted to the local conditions of the fermenting masses of 

 protoplasmic matter. Where there had been but 

 small bodies of protoplasmic matter thoroughly sepa- 

 rated in different small lots, owing to the material sub- 

 stances that caused the particles yet in suspension to 

 unite with them, thereby forming a small body which 

 afterward was followed by the egg order of life or 

 oviparous life. The small bodies of matter that acted 

 on particles in suspension not being sufficient to admit 

 of more than one body of a given kind in a place. 

 Thereby life of that order. 



The life of the viviparous order being the product 

 of large bodies of minerals acting upon particles in 

 suspension and causing union of thousands of living 

 organisms at the same time. They all being a growing 

 in union with each other in the one large body of fer- 

 ments. And in consequence, were necessary as a means 

 of aiding life, owing to production by aiding each 

 other in the order of first production. 



Life of that order having had the aid of other life 

 by contact in the beginning, must, owing to precedent 

 in condition, need the contact of life of the same order 

 as the means of earlier production, throughout all 

 future production. The temperature remaining the 

 same in cases of masses of fermenting protoplasm form- 

 ing into life in a given lot of growing life; and in con- 

 sequence, the life all of the same order when de- 

 veloped. 



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