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"
And
what
are
these
masons
?
"
asked
Pencroft
.
"
Coral
insects
,
"
replied
Cyrus
Harding
.
"
By
constant
work
they
made
the
island
of
Clermont-Tonnerre
,
and
numerous
other
coral
islands
in
the
Pacific
Ocean
.
Forty-seven
millions
of
these
insects
are
needed
to
weigh
a
grain
,
and
yet
,
with
the
sea-salt
they
absorb
,
the
solid
elements
of
water
which
they
assimilate
,
these
animalculae
produce
limestone
,
and
this
limestone
forms
enormous
submarine
erections
,
of
which
the
hardness
and
solidity
equal
granite
.
Formerly
,
at
the
first
periods
of
creation
,
nature
employing
fire
,
heaved
up
the
land
,
but
now
she
entrusts
to
these
microscopic
creatures
the
task
of
replacing
this
agent
,
of
which
the
dynamic
power
in
the
interior
of
the
globe
has
evidently
diminished
--
which
is
proved
by
the
number
of
volcanoes
on
the
surface
of
the
earth
,
now
actually
extinct
.
And
I
believe
that
centuries
succeeding
to
centuries
,
and
insects
to
insects
,
this
Pacific
may
one
day
be
changed
into
a
vast
continent
,
which
new
generations
will
inhabit
and
civilize
in
their
turn
.
"
"
That
will
take
a
long
time
,
"
said
Pencroft
.
"
Nature
has
time
for
it
,
"
replied
the
engineer
.
"
But
what
would
be
the
use
of
new
continents
?
"
asked
Herbert
.
"
It
appears
to
me
that
the
present
extent
of
habitable
countries
is
sufficient
for
humanity
.
Yet
nature
does
nothing
uselessly
.
"
"
Nothing
uselessly
,
certainly
,
"
replied
the
engineer
,
"
but
this
is
how
the
necessity
of
new
continents
for
the
future
,
and
exactly
on
the
tropical
zone
occupied
by
the
coral
islands
,
may
be
explained
.
At
least
to
me
this
explanation
appears
plausible
.
"
"
We
are
listening
,
captain
,
"
said
Herbert
.
"
This
is
my
idea
:
philosophers
generally
admit
that
some
day
our
globe
will
end
,
or
rather
that
animal
and
vegetable
life
will
no
longer
be
possible
,
because
of
the
intense
cold
to
which
it
will
be
subjected
.
What
they
are
not
agreed
upon
,
is
the
cause
of
this
cold
.
Some
think
that
it
will
arise
from
the
falling
of
the
temperature
,
which
the
sun
will
experience
alter
millions
of
years
;
others
,
from
the
gradual
extinction
of
the
fires
in
the
interior
of
our
globe
,
which
have
a
greater
influence
on
it
than
is
generally
supposed
.
I
hold
to
this
last
hypothesis
,
grounding
it
on
the
fact
that
the
moon
is
really
a
cold
star
,
which
is
no
longer
habitable
,
although
the
sun
continues
to
throw
on
its
surface
the
same
amount
of
heat
.
If
,
then
,
the
moon
has
become
cold
,
it
is
because
the
interior
fires
to
which
,
as
do
all
the
stars
of
the
stellar
world
,
it
owes
its
origin
,
are
completely
extinct
.
Lastly
,
whatever
may
be
the
cause
,
our
globe
will
become
cold
some
day
,
but
this
cold
will
only
operate
gradually
.
What
will
happen
,
then
?
The
temperate
zones
,
at
a
more
or
less
distant
period
,
will
not
be
more
habitable
than
the
polar
regions
now
are
.
Then
the
population
of
men
,
as
well
as
the
animals
,
will
flow
towards
the
latitudes
which
are
more
directly
under
the
solar
influence
.
An
immense
emigration
will
take
place
.
Europe
,
Central
Asia
,
North
America
,
will
gradually
be
abandoned
,
as
well
as
Australasia
and
the
lower
parts
of
South
America
.
The
vegetation
will
follow
the
human
emigration
.
The
flora
will
retreat
towards
the
Equator
at
the
same
time
as
the
fauna
.
The
central
parts
of
South
America
and
Africa
will
be
the
continents
chiefly
inhabited
.
The
Laplanders
and
the
Samoides
will
find
the
climate
of
the
polar
regions
on
the
shores
of
the
Mediterranean
.
