HEAT AND COLD. 



is evolution? Is it a supreme power that can build 

 powerful beings out of nothing? Or must we attribute 

 the arrival at the solution by that means as one of the 

 last efforts of the supernatural atom in the mind of 

 its originator to hold in abeyance the light of reason 

 that was spreading within the brain of man? In which 

 case the atom won out. Defeating reason by over- 

 powering the reason that was coming to the man. 



Instead of building, evolution has had a tendency 

 to. modify the proportions of the animal life through- 

 out all the different families. And in return for such 

 reduction in proportions it has tended to compensate 

 all of them by greater durability owing to the condi- 

 tions necessitating same in order to exist. 



Wherever life has been built up, it has occurred 

 by the means of breeding of animals within modified 

 conditions. It has been brought about by a modifica- 

 tion of the conditions by one of two means. First, by 

 stabling the stock and preventing the rigors of climate. 

 And second, by feeding the stock other properties of 

 food which are not procurable in the order of nature. 

 Being the product of the handiwork of man in culti- 

 vation. In all other cases it will be found that the 

 tendency of nature is to diminish the bulk of body, of 

 any and all forms of life, compensating them with a 

 more durable constitution adaptable to the conditions. 



The reason of reduction of body being in order 

 that the means of sustenance within the order of nature 

 may be sufficient to keep up warmth within the body 

 of a given size, a larger body necessitating a greater 



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