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have never yet made protoplasm ; nor 

 have they ever made any of the so-called 

 chemical elements out of primitive matter, 

 but Nature has ; otherwise whence 

 came they originally ? Chemists have 

 never made protoplasm out of not-living 

 matter ; but Nature has ; or whence 

 came it originally ? Whether she is now 

 making the elements in the interior of 

 the earth we do not know ; but we do 

 know she is still making protoplasm on 

 the earth's surface. Originally she made 

 it out of not-living matter, which process 

 we in our ignorance call " spontaneous 

 generation " * 4 : now she makes it by 

 means of germs, that is, she leaves it to 

 the means she has provided for its continuous 

 production ; and which we find is the 

 orderly plan of evolution from protophytes 

 through a gradually ascending orderly 

 series of plant life up to the highest plant, 

 and from the amoeba through a gradually 

 ascending orderly series of animal life up 

 to man " evolution," as demonstrated by 

 Darwin, Wallace, and others. The universe 

 is an orderly evolution atomic matter, 

 worlds, minerals and metals, plants and 

 animals, and then man. 



14 See Appendix. 



