240 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



a scheme of " natural evolution " broad enough to take in any 

 number of cosmic revolutions, and provide for the ultimate 

 perfection of every organism as an immortal being ; in a 

 word, after setting " Ferien " to all creative activity, Bonnet 

 resolutely undertook to devise a scheme that would keep the 

 holiday repose forever inviolable. With a zeal never daunted, 

 and an ingenuity seldom baffled, never defeated, he piled 

 mountain upon mountain of negation, rolling Ossa on Olympus 

 and Pelion upon Ossa, until the whole organic world seemed 

 to be completely buried under a stupendous mass of negations, 

 blending in one infinite negation No CHANGE. 



