THE DOGMA OF EVOLUTION 



that the cells, or bricks, acquire an orderly arrange- 

 ment. He pays absolutely no attention to the mean- 

 ing of the word, acq^uire, and apparently most readers 

 accept it without question. Just imagine a mass of 

 bricks acquiring an orderly arrangement and becom- 

 ing a house I It is this extraordinary fact that the cel- 

 lular organism does act independently of its environ- 

 ment and arranges its order from within which makes 

 it absolutely different from bricks and all other in- 

 animate matter. This is the sort of language and these 

 are the loose ideas of men of science when they wan- 

 der out of their own field and try to vivify matter. 

 And the astounding thing is that they have "put it 

 over" and confused the simple knowledge of men by 

 technical words which mean no more than the com- 

 mon ideas of the Greek and Latin words from which 

 they are derived. They sneer at the looseness of 

 thought of the clergy whose chief fault is, they do not 

 see this fallacy and have adopted also a materialistic 

 philosophy veneered with a thin disguise of humani- 

 tarianism. 



When we strip from the mechanistic cell theory its 

 wrappings of mysticism and technical verbiage no 

 more inadequate proposition was ever imagined. The 

 idea of inorganic matter being an aggregation of 

 molecules has been seized upon, but the one restric- 

 tion which makes the molecular hypothesis in physics 

 reasonable has been quite overlooked. Molecules of 

 water, for example, when added together make only 



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