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In all these wonderful complex arrangements of cells 

 and material secreted by cells, in these functions of cells 

 which we call life, there are molecular conditions which 

 produce health, and sensations termed comfort, intelli- 

 gence, pleasure, happiness, &c. Also conversely there 

 are molecular conditions which produce disease, and 

 sensations termed discomfort, non-intelligence, unhap- 

 piness, misery. Obviously it should be the aim of man 

 to cause regeneration under conditions which promote the 

 former and tend to destroy the latter. This is quite 

 within the reach of human power directly the object to 

 be aimed at is clearly seen, and not before. 1 



Many may be tempted to regard such an aim as 



design of the architect, than the bodily force of the workmen who 

 labour under his guidance in the construction of the fabric. The 

 actual constructive force, as we learn from an extensive survey of the 

 phenomena of life, is supplied by Heat ; the influence of which upon 

 the rate of growth and development, both Animal and Vegetable, is so 

 marked as to have universally attracted the attention of Physiologists ; 

 who, however, have for the most part only recognized in it a vital 

 stimulus that calls forth the latent power of the germ, instead of 

 looking upon it as itself furnishing the power that does the work."- 

 (" Carpenter's Principles of Human Physiology," 9th edition, 1881, 

 pp. 4, 5.) 



1 " Plague, pestilence, and famine are admitted, by all but fools, to 

 be the natural result of causes for the most part fully within human 

 control, and not the unavoidable tortures inflicted by wrathful 

 Omnipotence upon His helpless handiwork." 



" Harmonious order governing eternally continuous progress the 

 web and woof of matter and force interweaving by slow degrees, 

 without a broken thread, that veil which lies between us and the 

 Infinite that universe which alone we know or can know ; such is 

 the picture which science draws of the world, and in proportion as 

 any part of that picture is in unison with the rest, so may we feel 

 sure that it is rightly painted." (" Lay Sermons, Addresses, and 

 Reviews," Thos. H. Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S., 1893, p. 216.) 



