" OMNE VIVUM EX OVO. 3 1 



living thing, once dead, be made to live again, 

 even if no attempts whatever be made to effect 

 its solution. 



But let us mark the astonishing development 

 which has recently occurred in regard to the 

 new views. In the first place, Harvey's maxim, 

 " Omne vivum ex ovo," has, we are told, be- 

 come a mere " form of thought," and will soon 

 be set aside in favour of such new and con- 

 vincing conclusions as the following, which it is 

 suggested may prepare our minds for the recep- 

 tion of the New Philosophy. Corresponding to 

 the states, living monad, dead monad, have we not 

 living crystal, dead crystal ? For moving mo- 

 nad, growing monad — moving, growing crystal ? 

 For assimilating monad, assimilating crystal ? 

 For multiplying monad, have we not multiplying 

 crystal ? Does not the crystal, like the monad, 

 proceed from an invisible germ ? May not the 

 crystal, like the monad, produce millions from 

 a fluid holding in solution the materials of its 

 pabulum ? Does not the genesis of the monad, 

 like the genesis of the crystal, depend upon a 

 mere collocation of matter and force ? Who, 

 therefore, can refuse to believe that whenever 

 the matter and forces are properly collocated, 



