Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 53
— Part I 52 snow rather than rain; there the snow is compacted into ice sheets and glaciers. There is a constant gravitational force working on these huge mountains of ice. This gravitational force plays an important role in releasing the entrapped potential energy of the ice. It is a natural law that when ice is pressed hard, the surface where the pressure is the greatest gains a much higher temperature and begins to melt the ice. Even in areas where the temperature falls below -60 o C, the underside of the glacier is always melting. Consequently, a glacier touching a mountain surface rises in temperature and melts. Thus the entire glacier loses its grip upon the mountain and begins to slide downwards. As it slides, it carries along huge boulders and rocks embedded within, and also destroys other obstructions on the way during its downward journey. This results in the grating of boulders and rocks etc. into many smaller stones and pebbles. Grains of salt are also created as an end product. But for this law, all the water of the oceans could have been transformed and transported back to the mountains and poles. Eventually all human life would cease to exist as all water would be converted into oceans of ice. Again, there is another role mountains play in the support of life as they provide fertility to the soil of the earth by different means. It should be remembered