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purified by Oxygon, &c. ; these are facts of process and 

 structure ; but why should the blood flow at all, and what is 

 the principle of Life which causes it ? and why is the blood 

 of man clearly distinguishable from the blood of beasts ? The 

 answer to these questions would bring us nearer to Baconian 

 Form. For though he sometimes leads us to think that his 

 Form is only high and successful generalization, (I. 103105,) 

 yet his ambition was something higher than this ; and he 

 yearned to learn the secret things of Nature ; to trace the 

 very hand of God, who in His mercy has made all things 

 *rood. 



