The Raymer enterprise., 1918-03-14

school what I've only read In books,
but you know that there was a time
when the seas were warm, steamihg
baths. and the steam formed clouds,
so that the sun had never been seen.
Before the sun appeared, the world
was lust dlffused light and darkness.
There's an answer TO your Bible crit
les who say Genesis Is all wrong, be-
cause II says light was made before
the sun. Light did exist. before the
sun was dreamed Of. so far as man Is
concerned.
You're right, sir" answered Don
aid. who Ike most sailors, was a re-
ligious man.
And then" continued Masterman,
"what does the record tell usl The
moving creatures that have life were
made, and the great sea monsters, Le-
yiathan and his kind. and the fowls
OF the air. And afterward the earth
monsters, and creeping things. And
man not till the last. Now don't tell
| me, lieutenant, that the man who
wrote the story Of the creation wasn't
an up-to-date scientist.
"Well, sir, at last the day came when
the waters had cooled, the clouds
| opened, and the sun streamed through.
| BY that time the ocean wasn't so
| pleasant IA place to live In as formerly,
especially as the climatic zones were
appearing. No doubt there was rush
to the equator on the part Of the sur
face monsters. But the ocean beds
were still warm from the hot rocks,
and the heat down there was good for
several thousand, VT hundred thou
sand years yet.
$50 some OF the sea creatures re.
mained In the depths, and others pre-.
ferred TO bask on the rocks in the sun,
light. Then their gllls began 10 be
replaced by lungs, or else they had
gills as well as lungs, or an interme'
diate apparatus"
Common today, captain. Certain
lizards develop either lungs or gills
according to the medium In which
they live"
SWELL sir, as | understand II, the
first organisms that came out on land
were armor plated. like the crabs and
splny fossil fishes. Their bones were
on the outside, to protect them against
being eaten. But after while the
progressive ones turned themselves In
side out. Those that didn't remained
like the turtles and degenerated. The
rest found that 1t was easier to escape
their enemies by using their bones as
props and developing speed.
"Now, lieutenant, suppose men had
developed that way In the depths OF
the sea. Suppose you had race OF
men who had discovered. not neces
sarily turning themselves inside out
like us, although they might have done
SO, but other means to avoid being
eaten-say inyisibllity."
There l can refute you" answered
Donald. Man has developed from an
extinct ape, an ancestor Of his cous'
lns, the four anthropOlds, supposedly
n chimpanzeelike creature with the
structure Of glbbon, from which he
obtained his erect posture. Your sea
creatures would have had to go
through the lemur.ape forms"
but let us suppose man who de-
yeioped of the line persisted Mas
terInan. "A manlike organism with
webbed feet-something like man.
seal How about mermen? Do you
believe there is anything In that
storyi'
Il hardly think so, captain"
How about the old legends of the
Cyclopsesl'
"A myth. Masterman. Besides, the
I Cyclops kept cattle and lived upon
land"
But they ate men, lieutenant. How
ever. let us call our men Of the sea
/ imaginary. Grant that there might
be such creatures, though. You'll ad-
init that, with life so hard under the
ocean, they'd have developed more
cunning along certain lines than the
human race. And they wouldn't know
nue.. about pity or love, or anything
| except how TO find their food"
an grant that" answered Donald,
IF We accept the hypothesis that such
| creatures exist"
Good Put n pin there, my lad.
Now, as we were saying. after thou
sands of years the heat at the bottom
Of the sea would disappear by It's diff
fusion through the oceans every
where. The depths would grow too
cold for them. Its bitter cold in the
water at 81 to 81 degrees Fahrenheit,
! Wouldn't the time come when they,
too, would feel the impulse TO migrate
into the sunf'
"No, Masterman. Their breathing"
Il know what you're going to say,
lieutenant. You're going to tell me
that, even II they could breathe air.
they couldn't live when the pressure
of those miles of ocean was removed.
But suppose nature has been busy
preparing for the change during thou