The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-02-05
For the Democrat.
WEST ALEXANDRIA, O.,
January 81. 1885,

Editor Democrat: Time goes on.
Our animal is a cell republic inclosed
by a wrapper of soliied and altered
cells. Next, in this wrapper a
further change takes place. 1t pro
tudes into limbs; q gasDing mouth
appears. The limbs or tentacles
grasps the food and pats it in the
mouth; other limbs sprout forth and
carry their owner from place to place.
In the meantime the cells within are
also changed, their partitions are re-
moved. the many walled apartments
are converted into galleries or tubes,
along which the food is conveyed
from n part Of the body to another.
These tubes are filled with blood
pumped backward aud forward by
the heart. The muscles which move
the outer limbs are equipped with
nerves, the movements OF which are
directed cen.ers in the spine and
brain. The functions Of life are
thus divided, and each department
has an organ of it's OWE. The repro
ductive function is divided farther
still. Two seperate elements are
formed; one prepares and elects the
sperm cell, which the other receives
and unites 10 the germ cell. At q
later period in the history of life
this arrangement is supplanted by an
other, more complicated still. The
two elements no longer co-exist in
the same forms, and thus reproduc
ton can only be effected by means
of cooperation between two distinct
and Independent individuals. How
important a fact is this will present
ly appear.
These various inventions Of Ma,
ture, so far as we have gone-the
limbs of locomotion and prehension,
the heart with it's vessels, the brain
with its nerves, and the separation
of the sexes, all occurred in the
marine period of the earth's life, il
the dark deep sea womb.
Similar changes, but inferior in
degree, occurred in the vegetable
world. The shapeless specks be
came WI cel?ed; they we're next
strung together like a chain of beads
they then grew into sea weed anc
aqueous planets, which foatet
about and tiuaely obtained a footing
on land. But they dwelt long age:
on the earth before their sex ap
peared. There were no flowers ii
that primeval world, for the flower
is a sign of love. Gigantic mosse;
and rec ferns clothed the earth, ant
reproduced themselves by scattering
cells around.
Animals followed their prey, the
| plants, from the water to the land
and became adapted for terrestia
life. At that period the atmospher,
was thickentd with carbonic acit
gas, and a. more pestitental thar
the Black Hole of Calcutta. Only
reptiles, with sluggish and imper
feet respiratory organs, could breatl
in such an air. But that fatal ga.
was bread to the vegetable world
which took the carhon in to it's body
and thus the atmosphere was puri
fled in time. One vast mass o
carbon which the plants took out o
the air, in order to allow a higher
class of animals to appear upon thu
stage, were buried in the earth
hardened into coal, and were brough.
in by the Author in the second act
now on.
The coal matter being thus re
moved the air was bright and pure
the Sun glowed with radiance ant
force; the reptiles were converted in
to birds and quadrupeds of man,
kinds; insects rising from the lane
and from the water hummed ant