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time, methods, and character of the distribu- 

 tion of that which had from the beginning been 

 fully distributed. It is much more probable 

 that life made its first advent upon this globe 

 in some favored locality, and not everywhere 

 at once. 



It would seem as axiomatic a proposition 

 as can be made in natural science, that life 

 would make its first appearance on that part 

 of the earth, or on that part of any developing 

 planet, which by climatic and all other con- 

 current conditions was first prepared, if not to 

 originate at least to receive and maintain it. 

 Nothing can be more certain than that it could 

 not make its first appearance on that part, or 

 on any of those parts, wanting these condi- 

 tions. 



By concurrent conditions of climate or tem- 

 perature, wherever the phrase is used herein, 

 I mean such currents of air and ocean, such 

 evaporation and condensation of water, such 

 disintegration of rock, such electrical and 

 chemical changes, new combinations, phenom- 

 ena, and movements as are influenced by or 

 accompany changing climate or temperature, 



