68 Chemical Affinities. 



But no force, howsoever used, can explain the mechanism 

 of organism. Force is but law it cannot organize; and in 

 all cases the being or object organized demands for its 

 distinct form of manifestation the direct will of the Creator 

 in the first case, no matter how forces act and react upon 

 each other, after the organized matter has first received its 

 stamp of reciprocated actions and reactions in the outward 

 processes of development and decay from the seed to the 

 seed again ; for each seed has within it the stamp of the 

 Creator's Will, and no germ is able to originate new germs 

 distinct to those of its own primary conditions, the great 

 apparent differences being the controlling effects of cir- 

 cumstances in lower types or organizations; and that like 

 genders like is here embraced in its totality, with this 

 remark, that after leaving the lower forms of animal 

 life, the unisexual system in animals gives greater facili- 

 ties for transmutation of species ; but in lapse of genera- 

 tions, if procreation is retained, the progeny of dissimilar 

 species reverts to one or other of the primitive forms, 

 whichever condition it is living under, that is most favour- 

 able for retaining the type of one or the other primitive 

 species in greatest perfection, and not to a new or distinct 

 species; and so the persistency of species resolves itself 

 back to that form of development in which it was first 

 placed. 



The first impress given to each organic form of life is, 

 in animated creation, as much a stamp given to matter 

 in a particular mould, as a likeness is to the die which 

 impressed it. So an acorn is the first organic impress 

 to the oak, and a pip to an orange-tree, and the spawn 

 of a fish to its responsive salmon or trout. In astronomical 

 science the primitive tap, or the duly-adjusted impetus 

 given to matter at its start, from its own inertia, in the 

 line of the tangent, determines by attraction the planets 



