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embryos and foetuses, in all their stages, to the influence of strong frost to see if any effect would be visible on the
frosted glass. Such experiments might bring forth wonders, and in a manner take the place of alcohol preservations.Indeed, taking into consideration all these evidences
and tests that crowd in upon us, particularly from the
vegetable world, the Biblical symbol of the "Tree of Life,"
and the accepted term of the "Tree of Genealogy" assume
almost sacred character.
Our remote ancestors in ancient Thule, when con- structing their Scandinavian mythology on the basis of their more remote Aryan ancestors’, symbolized this "Tree of Life" in an ashtree, Ygdrasil, which extended
its influence everywhere. How strangely things come
round in the whirligig of time, now that we begin to conceive that a veritable system of foliage permeates all nature as exemplified in numerous microscopic things, and
on which I shall now discant. After all our ancestors
were, perhaps, not such fools as we take them; they must
have possessed some intuitive knowledge.
If you insert an incandescent electric light into a large
chunk of ice you will be amazed by discovering tracings of beautiful foliage concealed therein, but this will probably
only occur in impure ice, containing animal and vegetable
matter, not in ice from distilled water; the test remains
to be made.
On the small, frosted windows of coal dealers there
will occasionally be seen attempts at tracings of crystals
and curious foliage, and also circles, with numerous irregular rings, like the surface of blocks of wood, sawn across, displaying the year-rings of the arborial growth. Can it be
possible, or might it not be possible, that the foliage dis-
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