BIRD AND ANIMAL LIFE. 



the action of cold upon the particles of off-fall carried 

 from the body. Then the cold acted on the reduced 

 particles of matter, causing same when passing out of 

 the quill to congregate into globular particles and ad- 

 here to each other by being acted on by heat in the 

 interstices between the globular particles separated by 

 the cold. This process continued by each succeeding 

 posit of off-fall from the system, and interstices between 

 globular posits were the means of further passages di- 

 agonally opposite to each other on the body of the 

 quills. These again formed minute quills; and again 

 were carried outward until globular posits were caused 

 on each side by the action of cold on the deterged parti- 

 cles carried out of the system. In this manner the wings 

 and feathers were produced by the action of cold upon 

 the deterged particles of matter from the organic sys- 

 tem. This process was nothing more than the condition 

 made manifest, taking into consideration the immediate 

 change coming to pass in conditions in like elevations 

 where there was no body of earth to guarantee heat of 

 a constant for any great period of time. This was 

 nature's manner of providing for the continuation of 

 species, let the conditions be what they may. The 

 life coming into being under any conditions must con- 

 form to the conditions that was the cause of same com- 

 ing into life. 



The carnivorous life of practically all orders came 

 into being farther dow r n the mountain sides and slopes, 

 where temperature could be maintained at a constant 

 in periods conforming to their respective periods of 



gestation. 



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