CONTENTS 



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Introductory 5 



Chapter I The Beginning of Things Earthly 9 



Chapter II Gravity 23 



Chapter III The Revolution of the Earth on its Axis, weighed 



in the Light of Present Conditions of Surface 35 



Chapter IV The Voyage of the Earth around the Sun and its 



Effect upon Climate 41 



Chapter V Ocean Currents 50 



Chapter VI Observations on the Movements of the Tide 56 



Chapter VII Earthquakes 60 



Chapter VIII Cataclysms Their Cause and Effect. Glacial 



Epoch and Geological Confirmation Surveyed 63 



Geological Conditions 67 



Chapter IX Matter, Change of Form, Application of Measure 72 



Time, Measure 79 



Chapter X The Age of Water 80 



Chapter XI Volcanoes 84 



Chapter XII Organic Life in the Beginning, including Man 



and Other Life 85 



Chapter XIII Organic Life and Planetary Conservation 107 



Chapter XIV Man's Place in the Perpetuation of the Planet.. 108 



Chapter XV The Advent of Man and his Development 116 



Chapter XVI Circulation of the Blood 137 



Chapter XVII Second Period of Intellectual Development in 



Man Development of the Stomach Feed for the Wolves 



Clothing 147 



Chapter XVIII The Office of the Brain 152 



Chapter XIX Temperature vs. Intellect 162 



