PREFACE 9 



mal and plant. Having done this, he appears to 

 think that he has explained all the phenomena of 

 reproduction, heredity and life. But his solution of 

 the vital equation contains an unknown quantity, 

 namely : ' * heredity ; ' ' and it is, therefore, no solution 

 at all. 



The evolutionist and materialist maintain that 

 the blind unthinking atoms and cells, of which the 

 embryo body is made, do, spontaneously and auto- 

 matically, without the aid or guidance of any extra- 

 neous, psychic or creative force, group themselves into 

 the chemical combinations and mechanical arrange- 

 ments, which are necessary to build up the embryo 

 body with all its organs and parts its brain, eyes, 

 ears, heart, lungs, etc. This is the most preposterous 

 of all their propositions. 



I have worked out this proposition : 



"Intellect, memory, will-power, force and motion 

 are necessary to group two or more atoms into a pre- 

 scribed chemical combination; or into a specified me- 

 chanical arrangement. ' 



Thus, if the reader were required to group ten 

 silver dollars into a triangle with three dollars in 

 each side and one in the center, he must have intel- 

 lect to understand the nature and properties of a 

 triangle; and to know how to construct it; and to 

 know when it is completed; must have memory to 

 bear these things in mind while doing the work; must 

 have will-power to begin and continue the work until 

 it is completed; must generate such force and pro- 

 duce such motions as are necessary to assemble and 

 group the coins into the prescribed figure. 



