tive power, nor the result of its incubation, because the conditions favorable to its further development have, for the time being, ceased, does not change its magnetic force nor cause it to lose its power of attraction for zodiacal gases, for as soon as the necessary conditions by the incubator are restored the process of development is resumed, and goes on the same as though it had not been arrested. This question might now arise: why are the conditions not changed by the cessation of the development in the egg if nature does the work?

The answer is easy so far as species are concerned, for the same zodiacal laws would take up their work of development just where they left off, and proceed with as much precision in the process of evolution as an old lady would when she resumed her knitting where she left off a day or week previous.

The ruling epinucleus would still preside over the development of the chemical center. Then, when heat was applied, and the earth had reached a point at which it could receive the required elements which most likely would be at the degree of rising when the egg was perfectly formed before it was laid. Here nature would resume her work and proceed as though she had not been interrupted, for which reason I must conclude that species began with the nucleus of the protoplasm. If it did not then the protoplasm might produce any species of life. On the same principle an egg might produce any species of the feathered flock by nature changing the chemical conditions of the egg

by adding or withholding at any time one or more of the chemical elements belonging to it, which being true, the species of the fowl would not depend on the character of the egg, but upon the chemical constituents of the spermatozao of the male, which supplies the fortifying forces. If the egg was a homogeneous mass of chemical elements the male of any fowl could fertilize the egg of any other fowl, and then reproduce his own or perhaps any other species; therefore the common hen might produce a guinea, a goslin, or a grouse, and a goose might produce a canary bird or a pewee, a crow or a pelican, or a new species. Consequently, no law or order could be maintained in the production of life; but as the laws now exist the epinucleus which are first formed in the egg, as previously described, determines just what the species shall be and plainly show why they continue the same and can not be changed.

The foregoing rules will hold good in regard to form, but not in regard to intelligence, for the simple reason that the zodiacal laws rule the development of the physical form or species, and, since they never change their relative positions to one another, they may suspend at the laying of the egg, and again resume their work of development at any time within a given limit with no inconvenience, delay or confusion of forces. But since the planets rule the growth of the brain, which produces the intellectual faculties, their effect is different at different times, since they are continually changing their relative positions and aspects to

one another; and, as the planetary brain is produced after birth, it does make a difference when a chick is hatched or a child is born, and the latter in particular. That the epinucleus of a protoplasm, which formed at the rising of a given degree of the zodiacal belt, produced animal form may leave in the mind of thoughtful readers the impression that only 365 species of animal life could be produced, since that is the number of degrees in the zodiacal belt. It will be necessary to explain further.

The reader must remember that the earth's orbit varies a little in performing its cycle, which requires 29 years. This variation from the exact latitude and declination relative to other planets, might change the combination of elements which composed the first epinucleus, and, consequently, the other eleven, and thus produce different species, even under the same longitudinal degree of the zodiac; which being true, would account for the multiplicity of species found on the earth even if there was no other explanation to be given; but, since the temperature of the earth was constantly changing, species may be accounted for otherwise. Different degrees of temperature might, and doubtless did, cause different combinations of gases to unite in forming the various species, since the combinations are not all affected alike by the same degree of temperature.

The nucleus formed when the earth was at its greatest degree of heat that would produce life. Nature created the largest and most tender animals,

many of which could not survive the chemical and climatic changes which the earth has since passed through, hence became extinct. As the temperature of the earth ran down during the process of cooling, different effects on the gases were produced, so that many and varied were the nucleus formed before it reached a degree that would produce nothing higher than the insect life. The life-producing period of the world may have covered millions of years, and millions of species may have been produced, which were unable to reproduce; consequently, their species were lost at their death. Strong evidence in favor of this apparent fact is that there are barren animals among all species; then, if in reproducing nature fails to perfect one of her species, she may have failed to have perfected some of her original creatures. Besides, thousands of species may have been produced, lived for a time, and finally became extinct without leaving any trace of their former existence.

A very natural supposition is that the interference of the sun's heat would have made the earth too hot to incubate any species of life; but this point is explained when it is remembered that 108 degrees is incubating heat, and that when the earth was at that degree of temperature water would evaporate very rapidly, and thus keep dense clouds in the air, for the clouds would have to become very dense before they would condense for the want of cold currents, which could not exist when the whole surface of the earth was hot. These clouds would obstruct the sun's rays,

and prevent them from reaching the earth; but as time rolled on heat grew less, and cold currents were created; clouds condensed and rain fell in torrents. Thus were the clouds dispelled, while the sun was permitted to pour his violent rays with full force upon the earth which made the days intensely hot and the nights cool, which had the effect to bring the period of life-producing to a close, after which all animal life must be perpetuated by the sex-process, and incubation for mother earth had passed her change.