HEAT AND COLD. 



occasioned by the impact of the foreign body, the 

 truths as to powers of heat and cold upon particles of 

 matter. Education being neglected after taking up 

 life anew under different conditions, and as years 

 passed the properties were interpreted as beings. The 

 names of properties became names of powerful beings, 

 jealous, tyrannical and unjust. 



We will not conclude the chapter yet without 

 bringing into play another proof of the knowledge be- 

 yond the age of superstition into which mankind has 

 been imbedded ; of man's place in nature in conserving 

 worldly life by the sweat of his brow. 



Nature proving in its unceasing laws that man 

 must work to maintain heat in order to prolong his life 

 and that of the earth. Now beyond the age of ignor- 

 ance man knew that great truth. Men who came over 

 the great catastrophe in the ark, or arks, as the case 

 may be, were aware of the liberation of heat being a 

 necessity in the prolongation of life, for man and earth. 

 You will ask where we get the proof. Well, lest we 

 hold you in suspense, will answer: In the burning of 

 incense, making offerings to the angry god. In offer- 

 ing up life to assuage his great anger toward their 

 kind. 



Now, all of those peculiarities in the actions of 

 the ignorant tend to prove that from beyond the fall 

 of man by the impact, men were aware of liberation 

 of heat being a necessity in prolonging life. The sur- 

 vivors of the catastrophe telling their progeny who 

 lapsed into ignorance for want of education, that the 



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