xxii Analytical Outline of Contents. 



I. VITAL ACTION : In contrast with physico-chemical action 

 Is peculiar to living beings. 

 Haeckel's Testimony : 



" The phenomena which living things pre- 

 sent have no parallel in the mineral 

 world." 

 Du Bois Reymond's : 



"It is futile to attempt by chemistry to 

 bridge the chasm between the living 

 and the not-living. " 

 No machine can grow. 

 No machine can produce machines like itself. 



II. MlND. I. " Horologity ": and the " watch-force ": 

 A combination of many forces, and 

 Their adjustment to a particular PURPOSE. 

 Its seat is in 



The Intelligence which conceived that com- 

 bination ; and in 

 The Will which gave it effect. 

 This evidence of Design is shewn in Universal 



Nature, 

 a. The Shell of the Barnacle. 



3. The Electric Ray. 



"It is impossible to conceive by what steps 

 these wondrous organs have been pro- 

 duced." (Mr. Darwin.) 



4. The new-born Kangaroo. * 



" Irrefragable evidence of Creative fore- 

 sight." (Prof. Owen.) 



5. The Eye : " With all its INIMITABLE con- 



trivances" (Mr. Darwin) (Prof. Pritchard.) 

 Nature is full of Plan. 



Yet she plans not. 



Where Science assumes a Use, 



Religion affirms an Author. 

 The Question, For what? 

 Involves the further question, From whom! 



