Excerpt from The Civilising Race
Examining into antiquity, it would appear that the moon was once a sun, but gave its heat to the earth and died, and the earth in its turn gave its heat to the sun, for the latter, though it appears to give, really absorbs the heat of the earth. When the gaseous surface of the earth began to solidify, heat and matter may have produced life in the simplest form, a protoplasm or living atom amidst the watery surface, and then there may have been unity of type, for similar causes produce similar results; but nature is far too profuse in her methods to have trusted to a single pair or individual. As the waters were gathered up and frozen at the poles, the land appeared; for if the ice of the Arctic regions were to be melted, the land would be nearly completely submerged.
The living forms that inhabit the earth show signs of being derived from a marine origin, and the tail may be considered a relic of those times. Some of these forms left on the land, stranded by flood or tide, were compelled to adapt themselves to their new surroundings or perished.
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