The Primitive by Feike Feikema 1949 First Edition/1st print Doubleday HC

Description: THE PRIMITIVE Feike Feikema GARDEN CITY, N. Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1949 Prelude Who is to say that the earth belongs to man? Who? Once, a long long time after the earth became mature enough to be accepted into the family of planets, that close-knit family of whom our own Sun is the Father, and a long long time before the first man ap- peared anywhere at all, millions of years, there arose a master race of four-footed creatures. They were our elder cousins, the dinosaurs, the "terrible lizards," and they ruled our globe for one hundred fifty million years. They were once nature's glory, and their story is a mighty one, with beginnings in times so far back that for us to catch more than but a hint of it is to shred that multiple spider's web our little orphan mind. There are always beginnings, even for dreadnaughts, and for the dino- saurs, as for us all, it began in the sea. First, probably because the earth with its hoard of trembling atoms was at once close enough and yet far enough away from our glowering Father the Sun, certain elements began suddenly to pop hot in the hugest amniotic fluid of all time, the mighty egg the ocean. Next, the sun still glowering, some of the hot elements burst bounds, became infinitesimal on-again off-again bits of matter, one moment, life, the next, inert crystal. Again, in turn, some of the alternating bits increased, toughened, be- came steady glows of life. Once more, again in turn, some of the glows mutated, and waxed, and became unicellular dots, and spread throughout all the great egg's nursing and washing liquid. This errant process went on and on, the dots learning to divide and multiply, and becoming tiny balls of life dancing in the green deeps, and stretching and thinning and fattening and thinning in desperate play.

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