HEAT AND COLD. 



had to resort to interminable explanations and conjec- 

 tures in order to even make it appear as though there 

 may be a foundation to link onto, so as to draw out into 

 a weak hypothesis. 



The author will recommend the works of Darwin, 

 that is the part pertaining to his researches into ani- 

 mal distribution as well as vegetable distribution 

 throughout the surface of the earth. And while 

 recommending same, will call the reader's notice to the 

 animal and vegetable distribution as encountered by 

 Darwin, and the most difficult problems which he 

 came in contact with conforming with true law. Then 

 he will ask the reader if he can find any place where 

 Darwin was stalled but what will conform with the 

 laws made clear in this work. 



Darwin is to be credited with being a true student 

 of animal life, and a truthful historian when considered 

 within the range of what he has encountered during 

 his studies as to distribution, modes of life and general 

 characteristics of the various orders. But as to the law 

 at the base of the grand work, he was a child laboring 

 in a w r orld of mystery; the further he prosecuted his 

 researches into law the more he multiplied his want of 

 knowledge. 



The law of precipitation of matter within the tem- 

 perature consistent with the mingling into the organic 

 compound which goes toward forming into life, means 

 life in all communities where the temperature becomes 

 manifest in the cooling process. It means life as 

 varied as the change of temperature capable of being 



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