CHAPTER XXIV 



BIRD AND ANIMAL LIFE. 



On the mountain tops, or the highest points of 

 earthly surface, during the cooling process, the first life 

 of necessity had to appear, because the cooling was 

 further advanced in like locations and caused the pre- 

 cipitation of the life-forming compound. The high 

 points being exposed to the action of cold from every 

 direction excepting from beneath, and in consequence 

 arrived at the condition in the cooling process that 

 would admit of the mingling of the organic compound 

 that would build up life in advance of all other earthly 

 locations. 



The life of like locations had to be of an order 

 conforming to short period of constant in the inhibited 

 condition, or condition of incubation, because the cold 

 being acting from all directions barring one, from be- 

 low. In consequence, the fermenting period had to be 

 that of hours when considered on extreme sharp points; 

 likewise the particles of protoplasm precipitated under 

 such conditions must have been minute, owing to the 

 small amount of surface admitting of temperature con- 

 ducive to its compounding. In consequence, minute 

 forms of life. Insects of all orders, each conforming to 

 the few minutes' difference in the action of different 

 exposures to the action of cold ; thereby differing in per- 



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