CHAPTER XVII 



SECOND PERIOD OF INTELLECTUAL DE- 

 VELOPMENT IN MAN. - - DEVELOP- 

 MENT OF THE STOMACH. FEED FOR 

 THE WOLVES. CLOTHING. 



Man having developed first to live by the exaction 

 from contact with properties in nature yet in suspen- 

 sion. As nature cooled the properties tending to keep 

 up life being precipitated in their order of precipita- 

 tion. In consequence, the properties going toward 

 feeding man had to be derived from earthly properties 

 formed out of the same properties he formerly derived 

 from aerial contact. In consequence, he began to use 

 his stomach in digesting the chemical properties made 

 up from the former articles of diet. He, being a 

 judge by contact, could distinguish between the dan- 

 gerous and the necessary articles of food. 



But at the period of the stomach coming into play 

 another dangerous enemy, more dangerous than the 

 poisons derived from aerial contact, came into his line 

 of contact. These being the carnivorous droves from 

 the mountain districts. The cooling of nature upon the 

 properties of matter made water in man's abode a mat- 

 ter of course. Water being detained on the surface 

 rendered the life of the mountain fastnesses very neigh- 

 borly by their visiting man with intent to feed on him. 



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