CHAPTER XIII 



ORGANIC LIFE AND PLANETARY 

 CONSERVATION. 



Organic life becomes a great factor in the preser- 

 vation of the planet, and adds perhaps millions of years 

 to its period of duration. Vegetable growth and trees, 

 herbs, cereals and all other forms of life of that order 

 become a means of storing heat to again be liberated 

 by the action of the digestive organs of animal life in 

 transforming them into active bodily heat. 



Among the animal and vegetable kingdoms there 

 is no other form of life that adds to the period of the 

 earth's duration as much as man. But instead of man 

 being the one and only, and all earth being made for 

 his playground, and all animal life to subserve his 

 wants while at play, he is nature's greatest slave in the 

 perpetuation of the whole means of life. He is the 

 minor being moving to\vard the greater cause. In- 

 stead of the greater cause moving to subserve his im- 

 mediate wants and pleasures. 



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