The Civilising Race (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Civilising Race

Xamining 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, f...