TEE, ORIGIN OF CREATION. 



result. Low animal life is thus only a higher form and: develop- 

 ment of vegetable life, the animal as a general rule, being 

 migratory, and the vegetable stationary. 



Wherein, then, consists the life of this animal? Merely in 

 the process of the stomach, receiving the food and dissolving 

 it, and the innate force of the animal as a magnet, sending the 

 necessary material from the food as blood, to its. extremities to. 

 repair and increase its body. 



All animal life including that of man, consists therefore, first, 

 in the dissolving of food into atoms, and assimilating them to 

 the material of the body ; and secondly, in the magnetism of all 

 the atoms, of the body acting as one magnet, farcing these atoms 

 from the centre to the extremities of the body. 



The law which governs life then is ATOMAGNETISM. In cor- 

 roboration. of our statements we have that of Prof. Leo. H.. 

 Grindon ,who in his valuable work on " Life " says- : " All life, 

 whether physical, physiological, or. spiritual, is, a state of 

 marriage or the union of two complementary forces- acting and 

 reacting." 



Such being our theory it may be asked, do- we then say with 

 Darwin, that all animals have been produced from one minute 

 primordial farm, and have so progressed up to man ? By 

 no means. Just as matter itself is composed of a variety of 

 elements just as all minerals are not, and cannot be produced 

 from one sort of mineral matter ; and all vegetables from one 

 species of vegetable matter \ so animals are governed by the 

 same law, and have not been produced from one animal, but 

 from many. 



Agassiz is of the same opinion, and even carries it further 

 when he says 3 in his lecture on. "Men and Monkeys," 1867 : " If 



