ON BIOLOGICAL ANALOGIES. 283 



assumption that life is pretty much the same in plants and in animals, 

 that they originate in the same manner, that they pass through 

 similar gradations, are subject to like diseases, and finally deposit 

 the germs of a new generation and die, then not only is the study 

 of one a help to the other, but a knowledge of either is essential to 

 the accurate appreciation of the other. In its higher aspects we are 

 led to contemplate the unity and harmony of the organic world, 

 that through Nature we may look up to Nature's God 



And to the beautiful order of His works 

 Learn to conform the order of our lives. 



