22 SPECIAL CREATION 



"However complicated one of the higher animals 

 or plants may be," says Huxley, "it begins its sepa- 

 rate existence under the form of a nucleated cell." 

 Huxley, Anatomy Invert. An. p. 19. 



See Haeckel, Ev. Man, chap. 6. "Ovum and 

 amoeba," pp. 36-50; Spencer, Principles, Biology, In- 

 dex, "Cell," 2 p. 630; Romanes, Darwin, etc., 1, pp. 

 104-134; Encyc. Brit. 12, pp. 5-10, "Histology;" New 

 Int. Encyc. 4, p. 400. 



Professor McMurrich, of the University of Mich- 

 igan, says : 



"It has been estimated that the number of cells 

 entering into the composition of the body of an adult 

 human being is about twenty-six million five hundred 

 thousand million.' (McMurrich, Development, Hu- 

 man Body, p. 18.) This number is equivalent to 

 twenty-six and a half trillions. 



The "cell theory" is the doctrine that the bodies 

 of all animals and plants consist, either of a cell, or of 

 a number of cells, and their products; and that all 

 cells proceed from cells, as expressed in the phrase 

 omnis cellula e cellula: a doctrine foreshadowed by 

 Kasper Freidrich Wolff, who died in 1794, and by 

 Karl, Enst Von Baer (born 1792.) It was established 

 in botany by Schleiden in 1838, and in zoology by 

 Theodor Schwann about 1839. 



Its complete form, including the ovum, as a sim- 

 ple cell, also, is the basis of the present state of the 

 biological sciences. Cent. Die. 1, p. 879, col. 1. 



