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tind I'epulsion is seen in the pulmonary and ]:>ortal cir- 

 culation. The molecular su;)ply ot* blood to nerve-tis- 

 sue, is doubtless a counterpart of this work, going 

 forward elsewhere, on a larger scale. The objectivist 

 says these processes are as mechanical or chemical as is 

 the formation of a crystal or capillary attraction in i 

 lump of sugar, a sponge, or a glass tube. It may be 

 the same power l)ut of a far higher order — shall I say 

 a Darivi)iian develo})ment of it ? The wonderful ^.aw 

 of selection- is not considered. This power uses a few 

 primary elements to build up new sul)stances, of the 

 most complicated and div^erse kind. We may sow in a 

 box of uniform earth, the seeds of different piiints; 

 they are watered by the same fluid ; heated by the 

 same sun, to the same degree ; grow in every way under 

 the same external influence, but each will produce its 

 kind. Selecting from these simple foods what each re- 

 quires, and grouping with a master hand, the most 

 harmless elements into rank poison, innocuous floral 

 beauty, or luscious fruit, in keeping with the powers of 

 each. The food we eat may be of the most heteroge- 

 neous kind, yet, nature's lal^oratory, by a more compli- 

 cated, but similar law of selection, forms out of these 

 the secretions, and the myriad variations of substances 

 in our bodies. True, the law-that operates to form the 

 chemical models in nature, fc in force in these more 

 complicated bodies, but al)ove and beyond the simpler 

 types of force, is an energy more intricate in its handi- 

 work than can 1)e produced in the world of chemistry, 

 and whose patent right to manufacture, no })ower in 

 the loAver stratum of force can even approach in l)eauty 

 and c<>inj)lexity. Alcohol can be made out of starch, 

 Imt no cunning of chemistry can do what is undone 

 and make starch out of spirits. We can reduce to their 

 ultimate elements all organic bodies, and the varieties 



