ABC's of Science by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) Oliver
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language of their own. Here manhood and womanhood is reached.
8. All animals came in like manner, but without a fluent language. 9. Vegetable matter flourished and the earth is inhabited. All bodies that have atmosphere are inhabited. Atmosphere is vaporized protoplasm. 10. Ten of the principal materials that produce flourishment are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, calcium, iron and magnesium; protoplasm contains everything; chemists have not been able to determine and classify protoplasm. (See Chap. I, par. 7.) 11. Humanity varied much in size. The giant tribe (such as the petrified Cardiff Giant) has long been extinct. Men of this type weighed 500 pounds and more, measured nearly 12 feet in height, while our midgets measure under 2 feet. 12. Hermaphrodites exist in all material that flourishes. Malformation. CHAPTER VI ANIMAL MAGNETISM |
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