Capitolo 22
secular cooling that preceded and it conducted to him, from the beginning of
the Miocene or Mean-tertiary period. Our European ideas, poor, sour,
and it tightens, it is mainly formed among an it cooled and shabby fauna and
flora, under inclement skies and in the dark days all of what you/he/she can give
us but a very narrow and weak conception of the cheerful exuberance,
the vitality that abounds, the fierce conflict of hand-to-hand and the
the victorious exultation of the tropical life in full development free his/her.
Everything through the Primary and Secondary epochs of the geology, is now
enough certain, greenhouse conditions practically almost prevailed
without an interruption on the whole world from pole to provide of poles. You/he/she can be true,
indeed, as the Dr. Croli believes (and his/her reasoning on the point I confess
you/he/she is fairly convincing), that at times glacial periods in the one or
the other hemisphere stormed for once on the genial heat that
characterized the greatest part of those enormous and incommensurable primaevals
aeons. But even if that was so--if to long intervals the world for some
times in his/her year of cosmical you/he/she was cooled and ice cream in a meaningless
beret to both extremities--these casual episodes in a long history don't do
interferes with the general truth of the principle that the life as a whole
during the greatest portion of his/her ancient existence you/he/she has been continued
under the tropical conditions essentially. Any matter that that geologic
formation that we examine, we find everywhere the same history explained in
simple registrations in front of our eyes. Takes, for example, the giant
baton-musks and luxuriant tree-ferns nature-printed on shales of the
coal age in Britain: and we see in the wild poverty of those
palaeozoic forests ample evidence of a heat and almost Of the Indian west
climate among the islets that cook low of our carboniferous northerner
seas. Or once more he/she takes the epoch of oolitic in England, lithographed on
his/her really mud, with his/her enigma-monkeys and his/her sago-palms his/her crocodiles