CHAPTEE VII. 



HOMOLOGY. 



"This mutual relation is like that of the uses of every member, 

 organ, and viscus in the body ; and still more closely resembles the 

 co-ordination of the uses of every vessel and fibre in every member, 

 organ, and viscus, where all and each are so consociated that every one 

 regards its own good in another, and thus in all, and all reciprocally in 

 each. From this universal and individual relation they act as one." 



SWEDENBORG, Heaven and Hell, . 405. 



THE fundamental unity of plan, running through- 

 out Nature, combined with endless diversity in 

 detail, is one of the chief arguments in favour 

 of Evolution ; and the more minutely these 

 affinities are studied, the more striking do they 

 appear ; but while on any theory of special 

 creation, they become more and more inexplic- 

 able, they nevertheless lead irresistibly to the 

 conclusion that the whole system of Nature is 

 under the control of one infinite Intelligence. 

 Standing at the base of Creation, we find 

 material Nature built up of sixty or seventy so- 

 called " elements," which by combining in dif- 

 ferent proportions, form compounds of every 



