DISCUSSION 205 



tarily: &quot;Whence does this highly developed 

 being suddenly come ? &quot; He must as such 

 consist of an organic mass, composed of cells. 

 But, to quote Virchow s saying, with which you 

 probably concur, omnis cellula ex cellula, it is 

 obvious that this being must have been evolved 

 from some primitive cell. The assumption that 

 the first being was a simple mass like a cell, is 

 far more likely to be correct, and is more simple 

 than your assumption that there was in the 

 beginning a highly organised Creator. 



1 Hoping for a speedy answer, I am, etc. 

 It is true that if we regard the personal 

 Creator, the ens a se of Christianity, in this way, 

 then Dr. Plotz s question: Who created the 

 Creator ? is as apt as the question : Who laid 

 the egg from which the Creator was hatched ? 

 It is a lamentable characteristic of our age, 

 that Haeckel s influence on philosophy has 

 reduced men, even among the educated classes, 

 to have recourse to such expedients. And our 

 nation was once the nation of thinkers ! 



I need scarcely say that these remarks do 

 not apply to Dr. Thesing, but were evoked by 

 his question regarding the nature of God. 



Dr. Thesing went on to say that a subject must 

 have an object, and the conception of the person 

 imagining a thing presupposed immediately that 

 which he imagined. What else could this thing 



