DIFFERENT KINDS OF LIVING HATTER. 



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DIFFERENT KINDS OF LIVING MATTER. 



1. WE have learned in former lessons that the ele- 

 mentary particles of living matter look alike and have 

 the same essential composition, although they may 

 belong to different kinds of living beings, and may 

 serve very different purposes. 



2. Different bioplasts produce different forms of 

 living things by the special instincts (or tendencies) 

 belonging to each kind. These different forms are 

 arranged, or classified, in Botany and Zoology, not 

 only for convenience of study, but as far as possible 

 in accordance with the plan of Creative Wisdom, 

 which has assigned to each its place in the order of 

 nature. 



3. The thousands of different kinds of vegetables 

 and animals could not be remembered ; but by group- 

 ing certain kinds together, which are in some respects 

 similar, and by combining these groups with others, 

 naturalists are able to form something like an orderly 

 system. Such a system will be a natural system if the 

 grouping be according to existing resemblances or true 

 affinities, otherwise it will be an artificial system. An 

 illustration of a natural system of classification may be 



