254 Anima Mundi. 



factured articles" may, or may not, be pro- 

 duced by machines ; but machines are a product 

 of Mind. And where there is no Mind, there 

 are no " manufactured articles." 



6. Between the curiosities of crystallography 

 and the mysteries of life there yawns a gulf 

 measurable only by the whole diameter of 

 being. It is even Haeckel himself who admits 

 that " The phenomena which living things pre- 

 sent have no parallel in the mineral world." 1 

 And yet Professor Tyndall puts the properties 

 of minerals, of mammoths, and of men, into one 

 and the same category ; tells us that however 

 strikingly they may be differentiated by specific 

 characters, yet, in every case, this difference is 

 one not of kind, but merely of degree ; and that 

 " the formation " of a man, or an oak, equally 

 with that of a snowflake, is nothing more than 

 "a purely mechanical problem, which differs 

 from the problems of ordinary mechanics " 

 not by the introduction of a new element, 

 not by the mysterious origination of vital or 

 mental force, but only by "the smallness of 

 the masses and the complexity of the process 

 involved." 



Now this assertion is not only unsupported by 

 evidence : the evidence completely disproves it. 

 1 M History of Creation," vol. i. p. 681. 



