46 A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 



renewed by invisible but all - pervading 

 energy, from a source that is inexhaustible, 

 and that every individual life, to all seem- 

 ing independent, is in reality but a motor, 

 actuated invisibly to discharge its appointed 

 functions, until the connection with the vital- 

 ising energy is sundered ? 



It may not be unnecessary to observe, that 

 our theory deals only with the life which is 

 common to all animals. 



