The last downfall of exterior vapors was at the time of Noah, and
produced the deluge. These vapors naturally gravitated toward the polar
regions and falling there as snows would accumulate as glaciers, their
magnitude and extent corresponding with the amount of falling snows.
It is evident if there ever was an Eden climate upon the earth its
destruction was brought about by a change of climate. If the Deluge was
a collapse of the last remnant of upper waters the latter must have
begun to fall in polar regions many centuries previous.
The Eden world suffered a change of climate during the Adamic age,
for the race that dwelt naked in Eden became clothed in the skins of
animals. If this infant race dwelt naked the climate was warm. If
afterward it became necessary to be clothed with the skins of animals
it certainly had become cold. If the cold increased it was probably
caused by the fall of snow in polar regions. The physical condition
of the antedeluvians and their environment depended on the conditions
of the upper vapors. Hence, polar glaciers began to advance in Edenic
times.
Glaciers advanced slowly, and are still advancing. Eight hundred years
ago Greenland was not the frigid land it now is. The Icelanders and
the Northmen sailed through northern seas in the interest of commerce
where now our hardiest seamen with iron-clad vessels scarcely dare to
venture. They pushed forward commercial enterprises into lands that are
now inhospitable and uninhabited.
The present glaciation of polar worlds is but the result of the last
declension of outward vapors. The great ice caps of polar regions
are moving toward the equator and are constantly diminishing. It is
possible that we are approaching a day when the last ice berg will be
borne toward the tropics, and the last glacier will melt, and a more
genial climate pervade the greater portion of the earth.