Chapter 9 



The Catalyst Entelechy in Differentiation and Morphogenesis 



Facts may be recognized and expressed in language, without 

 being understood and explained by having their underlying 

 mechanisms made clear in terms of matter. The ever-wonderful 

 development of a human being from the then unknown fertilized 

 ovum is thus expressed in the 139th Psalm, entitled "God's 

 omnipresence and omniscience": 



14. / will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully 

 made; marvelous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right 

 well. 



15. My substance was not hid from Thee, when I was made in 

 secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 



16. Thy eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in 

 Thy book all my members were written, which in continuance 

 were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. 



Even after men had freed themselves from kingly and priestly 

 taboos, and began to use their God-given powers of reason and 

 ingenuity, it took centuries of patient study and experimentation 

 by many thousands of devoted seekers after truth to acquire and 

 to learn how to extend our present knowledge of the mechanism 

 whereby we are "made in secret and curiously wrought." Besides 

 the microscope, we now have many instruments such as the ultra- 

 microscope, the electron microscope, spectrographs and spectro- 

 meters, with whose aid we can peer into "the lowest depths of the 

 earth" to try to learn what goes on there. And from chemical 

 behavior we deduce the activities of unseen atoms and molecules. 



The establishment of important facts, such as the isolation, 

 identification, and often the synthesis of individual chemical sub- 

 stances, as well as the demonstration of the effects they produce, 

 has been the result of much work that fills us with wonder and 

 admiration. But all will end in verbiage unless we carry through 

 and explain how "organizers" organize, how "evocators" evoke, 

 and how "inductors" induct. 



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