NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



"To the scientist," says Darwin, 

 "it is a hopeless inquiry as to 

 how life originated." Life from 

 an egg is still the latest dictum 

 of science, that is, life only from 

 life. When all was ready for the 

 plant, the life came from above.* 

 This life was imparted to and in- 

 carnated in the prepared matter, 

 possessing the power to reorganize 

 after its nature, that is, after the 

 pattern that goes with each type- 

 life, and possessing the power of 

 multiplication, so that the earth 



unorganized matter, unless through the 

 natural processes of growth from a 

 preexisting germ." — Cooke, "Religion 

 and Chemistry," ch. vii., p. 222 (1897). 



"These are the generations ... of 

 every plant of the field before it was in 

 the earth " (Gen. ii. 4, 5). 



* u Still more surely can we refer to it 

 [the spiritual world] those progressive 

 manifestations of life in the vegetable, 

 the animal, and man." — Wallace, 

 "Darwinism," p. 476. 

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