Excerpt from The Origin and Continuance of Life: Together With the Development of a System for Medical Administration on the Law of Similars, From a Discovery of Its Principles in the Law of Natural Affinities Shrouding our planet - nine miles deep - there is an ocean of oxygen-nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen vapor, attracted by magnetic force existing in the earth, so strongly, that no other force has been able to disen gage it, though the surface of the earth is whirling with it more than 1000 miles an hour and the whole mass of the earth and its shroud of gases is sweeping around the Sun with a velocity of miles an hour. There is still another ocean of gases still more adherent than the other to the great magnet. Within the first there lives 1, of human animals in conjunction with myriads of other. Life too numerous for an imagination to compare. In fact, the earth is a vast mass of life._ What astonishes us the most is the innumerable individualities of these living things, and the individual modes of their living; yet there are but four great gases - oxygen, hy drogen, nitrogen and carbon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.