The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind Volume 49; V. 435
- ISBN-10
- 123024512X
- ISBN-13
- 9781230245126
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09
- Publisher
- Theclassics.Us
- Author
- Andrew Jackson Davis
Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... nous development, occurring from the assimilation of light and heat with the previously decomposed vegetable substances, and which still possessed the principle of vitality. And being subjected to such favorable circumstances, a lively impregnation was the consequence, the action of which reorganized the parts that before had been assimilated. 44. Therefore vegetable formations became very thickly disseminated upon the portions of land that were thus raised from the depths of the sea. Immense masses were thus formed, and trees towered to a great height, the species of which are now entirely extinct. These were existing in various parts where moisture prevailed, and where there was an abundant supply of the requisite elements. And so exceedingly fertile were these vegetable portions, that the plants, in their rapid growth, extracted the strength of each other, and became prostrated; and decomposition followed as a natural result. This decomposition formed heavy beds of moss; and these constantly collected substances of like nature, as the latter were wafted from their locations by the excessive tides; and thus immense masses of vegetable substance were formed. These gradually sank below the surface upon the shale and limestone substances which formed suitable foundations for them. Being thus below their original level, these masses formed a basis for the deposition of other disintegrated and floating particles (of which the solution of lime and shale formed a great portion), and thus in process of time would be formed an overlying stratum of shale. It is well known among chemists that plants emit oxygen, and attract and assimilate with their composition, nitrogen, carbon, and other such mineral elements as constitute a part of...
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