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the constant influx of a vitalizing and energizing Influence 

 from above all nature, and hence from a source absolutely 

 Divine. 



It may here be remarked that these facts, developed by the 

 researches of palaeontologists, embryologists, and physiolo- 

 gists, concerning the relations and order of succession of the 

 different divisions of the animated tribes, are in perfect agree- 

 ment with the general mode of philosophizing presented in this 

 work, by which all general facts in each system of creation, 

 and all systems of creation as grand facts, are arranged in a 

 harmonious serial order of progression, in such a way as to 

 show a thread of unity and correspondence running through all 

 systems, and through the grand system of systems, from the 

 very origin to the very ultimates of all things. 



This scheme of creation brings the Animal Kingdom, as well 

 as the Vegetable, and all other complete systems of creation, 

 together with the grand System of all systems, under the 

 analogy of a TREE, with its seven serial and progressive parts, 

 consisting of Roots, Trunk, Branches ; Leaves, Flower-buds, 

 Blossoms, and FRUIT. It is thus strongly hinted that the 

 whole universal System of creation, with all its corresponding" 

 sub-systems, including the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, 

 while under the constant vitalizing and voluntative influx of 

 Divine Love and Wisdom, which are spiritual Heat and Light, 

 grew up, as it were, from Germ to ultimates, in the same pro- 

 gressive and sequential order in which the tree grows from 

 root to fruit, under the constant influx of solar heat and light, 

 which are the natural correspondents of Divine Love and Wis- 

 dom. 



But if this view is admitted, it will not of itself necessarily 

 decide the question as to whether each higher creation was in 

 all cases developed from the parentage of the one immedi- 



