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its whole surface. This differs from my conception, as the reader willsee presently, in one vital point — as to why the Earthwas not heated by the Sun. In the first place Fayessun has no raison detre; and in the second no visiblemeans of existence. If its matter were not alreadywithin the orbit of… … Tree fern. A PLANETS HISTORY 177 the Earth was already so far advanced as geology showsit to have been in paleologic times. For the Earth hadalready cooled below the boiling-point of water. To understand the problem from the Earths point ofview, let us review the facts with which geology…
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