The Workingman's Guide and the Laborer's Friend and Advocate; The Great Social Question Solved (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... THE WORKINGMAN'S GUIDE. CHAPTER I. Geology--Progress. There is a book we all have studied, many superficially, but it is very necessary that we should make it our principal examination. It is the book of all books, the book that contains all knowledge, sacred or profane, good or evil. It is the book we must consult in adversity or prosperity; our welfare entirely depends on the knowledge we have of that book; we have to consult it on every occasion. In this plain talk we shall begin with the lowest order of creation, and trace the animals from the lowest up to the climax man, from the lowest animated being to the highest. The object is to prove that nature is a gradation, that all nature was formed by degrees, and it is working so at the present time, and always will. Scientists nearly all agree that the earth at first was all gas, and round as at present, and revolved on its axis at an early date, long before it became solid. The attraction of gravitation caused it to contract, which made it grow hot, and in many years it became many times hotter than red hot iron, yes, hotter than melted iron. After a long time the centrifugal force, caused by the revolution on its axis, balanced the attraction of gravitation, and it then began to cool, and after hundred thousands of years or more, a crust began to form on its surface, but that crust no doubt was many thousand times broken before it became so strong as to remain for some time. But when the atmosphere cooled, the steam condensed to water, and that water settling on the crust made it crack again and break up, and the water again converted into steam and again cooling, was converted into water, and so it settled on the sur face until the crust was cool enough to hold the water, when it remained on the crust, ...