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of the nucleus. Even those who say all this still at- 

 tribute to the nucleus an important and unknown role, 

 and describe the formation in the impregnated egg of a 

 new nucleus ; while there are others again who resist 

 every attempt to degrade it. Bottcher asserts move- 

 ment for the nucleus, even when wholly removed from 

 the cell ; Neumann points to such movement in dead 

 or dying cells ; and there is other testimony to a like 

 effect, as well as to peculiarities of the nucleus other- 

 wise that indicate spontaneity. In this reference we 

 may allude to the weighty opinion of the late Professor 

 Goodsir, who anticipated in so remarkable a manner 

 certain of the determinations of Virchow. Goodsir, in 

 that anticipation, wonderfully rich and ingenious as he 

 is everywhere, is perhaps nowhere more interesting and 

 successful than in what concerns the nucleus. Of the 

 whole cell, the nucleus is to him, as it was to Schleiden, 

 Schwann, and others, the most important element. 

 And this is the view to which I, who have little busi- 

 ness to speak, wish success. This universe is not an 

 accidental cavity, in which an accidental dust has been 

 accidentally swept into heaps for the accidental evolu- 

 tion of the majestic spectacle of organic and inorganic 

 life. That majestic spectacle is a spectacle as plainly 

 for the eye of reason as any diagram of the mathema- 

 tician. That majestic spectacle could have been con- 

 structed, was constructed, only in reason, for reason, 

 and by reason. From beyond Orion and the Pleiades, 

 across the green hem of earth, up to the imperial per- 

 sonality of man, all, the furthest, the deadest, the dus- 

 tiest, is for fusion in the invisible point of the single 

 Ego which alone glorifies it. For the subject, and on 

 the model of the subject, all is made. Therefore it is 



