THE FIRST DAYS
OF MAN
[CHAPTER I]
HOW MOTHER NATURE MADE THE EARTH READY FOR MAN
In the beginning, millions of years ago, before there were any men, or animals, or trees, or flowers, the Earth was just a great round ball of fire, bright and dazzling, like the Sun.
Instead of being solid, as it is now, it was a huge cloud of white-hot gases, whirling through space.
We all know how solids can be turned into liquids, and liquids into gases, by Heat, for we have only to heat a solid piece of ice to turn it into a liquid, water, and if we keep on heating the water, it will turn into a gas, which we call steam. It was the same way with all the solid things on the Earth; Heat had turned them all to gases, like steam.
Then God called Mother Nature to Him and told her to get the Earth ready for Man to live on.
So Mother Nature sent Heat away to melt up some other worlds, and called for his brother, Cold. And Cold came rushing up, his great white wings glittering with frost.