| 34 | of all the living things upon our earth. The first living hings musł really have been kinds of plants, because, being the first living things, they had nothing but the simplest kind of food to live upon, and planis are the only things that can live upon these simple kinds of food. The first living things must have swam ashore helped perhaps by the moon which makes the tides, so that life, washed ashore by one tide and carried back by another. could grow used to the land without a sudden change." - Thus according lo some scientisis it is the sun which is regarded as the primal source e all lise : aecording lo others it is the internal heat of the earth which is ihe source of life, while according to still others life is an ellorescence of the sun, even like meleors and shooting stars. Gases like охуgen. the electrons which are the sluff of electricity, and ihe ether-vibrations which are lhe cause of heat and light—these are the constituent elements of the different malerial objects that we see upon the earth. They all issued oul originally from the sun and later assumed the separalc individual forms by which they are known on earih. The atomic theory of the ancients thus iurns out to be true efter all. The various things on the earth bre only masses or bundles of aloms, and these aloms can be broken սp and re-integrated by electricity C)r
