CELLS AND ORGANISATIONS 123 



faint and feeble, having only a semblance of order, a sug- 

 gestion of an intelligent hand. They are many as the sand 

 that is on the seashore. They are of immeasurable clear- 

 ness, perfection, and force. They are the most striking of 

 their kind that exist. They are the most striking of any 

 kind found in the natural world. There are none that 

 can vie with them, none that are not feebleness beside 

 them. They are so brilliantly clear, so forcibly striking, 

 that they compel us to have respect unto them, to ac- 

 knowledge their transcendent splendour, to stand in awe 

 and sin not against their majesty, to seek for them an 

 origin worthy of their rank, a parent corresponding to 

 them in nature and kind, a cause of their being of 

 their own loftiness, and to be found within their own 

 realm. And to what do we naturally ascribe them ? Of 

 what are wealth of order and complexity of adjustments 

 and organisations the natural signs? Are they not 

 the natural signs of mind? Are they not the highest 

 rank and fashion among its children, the aristocracy, yea, 

 the royal race among its sons? They are not as the 

 arrow flints and axes, from which geologists do not 

 hesitate to draw conclusions. They are not even as 

 the greatest works of human genius. They surpass 

 them, and are more widely separated from them in 

 glory than they are from flint arrows and stone axes. 

 Yea, it seems as if He who made all things determined 

 to put into them a wealth of order and signs of mind 

 such as might render it impossible for mistake to be 

 made. Nothing conceivable or inconceivable save mind 

 can have produced phenomena so transcendent in 

 brilliancy, so infinite in force. 



