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the North Pole would be a kingdom of motionless death 

 furnishing no possibility ol organic life without some 

 external aid. Such a result would be a contradiction of 

 cosmic laws of life which is a for ward movement shared 

 by entire organisms, and admitting of no premature and 

 partial decay. 



A clear evidence of the double ocean currents is 

 afforded by the transmigrations of fish living in shoals. 

 Some of these fish, such for example as herrings and 

 cod, annually migrate for breeding purposes from nor- 

 thern seas into warmer waters. Their passage is always 

 effected against the marine current and is evidently di- 

 rected from the far north to the south, stopping at the 

 shores of France, Germany and Scandinavia, in the Eu- 

 ropean waters. 



After spawning, these fish at once disappear, and only 

 next spring repeat their transmigration from the North. 

 Evidently they return by the submarine current, and as 

 they always swim against the tide their journey north- 

 ward is no doubt conducted through a current running 

 south beneath the superficial stream. 



Once more we see here the reason of nature and 

 notice the analogy between aqueous and atmospheric 

 currents between the movements of the fish in the sea 

 and the movements of the planets in our solar systenu 



