48 A GREAT CONFESSION CHAP. 



outside and an inside, and these are 

 different. They begin with a cell, and 

 a cell is a blob of jelly with a pellicle or 

 thin membrane on the outside. Do we 

 not see in this the mechanical action of the 

 surrounding medium? The membrane 

 may come from a chill on the outside, 

 or the pressure of the medium. Does 

 not a little oil form itself into a sphere 

 in water, or a little water into a drop in 

 air ? And so from one step to another, 

 cannot we conceive how particles of 

 protein become cells, and how one cell 

 gets stuck to another, and the groups to 

 groups all with insides and outsides 

 " differentiated" from each other, and 

 so they can all be pressed and compacted 

 and squeezed together until the organism 

 is completed ? J 



Such or such like are the images 

 presented to enable us to conceive the 

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