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been secured, facts which it is safe to tie to. And these 

 are some of them. 



The earth and heavens had a beginning. 



The earth was at first an integral part of an immense 

 nebulous mass, and consequently, literally without form, 

 and void of land, water, plants and animals. 



Prior to motion, the earth was enveloped in darkness. 



Light, which began in that nebulous mass with little 

 color-giving power, became more and more like present 

 light as the condensation of the nebulous matter 

 went on, until it obtained the full richness of present 

 solar rays, i. e., was good for all its present uses. 

 This completion, or "goodness," was attained before 

 that division between light and darkness, which we call 

 Day and Night, was made. 



Subsequent to this, the earth was enveloped in dense 

 vapor of water forming clouds of enormous thickness, 

 in which a process of condensation went on, making them 

 thinner and thinner, until through their rifts the heavens 

 were visible. 



This vast expanse was filled with an atmosphere so 

 loaded with carbonic acid and other poisonous gases 

 that animal or plant life was impossible for other than 

 the lowest types ; hence it was not yet " good." 



The present dry land was once under the water. 



Of present living organisms, at least as to the higher 

 forms, the vegetable kingdom attained its present state, 

 its calmination in grasses, herbs and trees of to-day be- 

 fore the animal kingdom reached its final develop- 

 ment in present living species. 



After the plant world had arrived at its present goal, 

 but with a very considerable geological period between, 

 the water and the air divisions of the animal kingdom 

 reached their present development in the living species 

 of whales and other great water vertebrates, and other 

 water creatures which the waters brought forth abun- 



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