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its cells are distributed and grouped. Thus, the form 

 of the whale, elephant, giraffe, camel, lion, tiger, hip- 

 popotamus, alligator, python, horse, cow, eagle and 

 humming-bird, is produced by the distribution of the 

 cells or atoms in their bodies. If a man has a very 

 large head, a long nose or big foot we are compelled 

 to infer that these peculiarities are the result of depos- 

 iting an unusual number of cells ("organic bricks") 

 in these parts of his body. 



Sir Isaac Newton states his first law of motion 

 in the words following: 



"Everybody continues in its state of rest, or of 

 uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far 

 as it is compelled, by force, to change that state." 

 (Encyc. Brit. (9 ed.) 15, p. 676.) 



For example, if one should lay a stone on the 

 ground it would remain there forever, unless moved by 

 some sort of force. It would be absurd to suppose 

 that the stone could, automatically, move itself. 



There is no such thing as making any thing out 

 of nothing. Every thing is made of some other thing. 

 The body of the horse is made of corn, hay and other 

 vegetable and mineral substances. So the human body 

 is made of bread, meat and other food-stuffs, eaten by 

 the mother before birth and by the individual, him- 

 self, after birth. The germ-cell is deposited in the 

 womb of its mother. It cannot devekp nor grow, 

 unless it receive nourishment from her ho.ly. She 

 eats bread, meat and other things, these are converted 

 into blood, and a portion of it is carried, by the force 

 of her heart and arteries, to the germ-cell; it absorbs 

 and assimilates a portion of the blood ; produces cells ; 



