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the fruit to be not only new life, but in its consequences to be man’s chief 
resource for all his happiness ; for hence spring, the comforts and refine- 
ments that belong to the family ; the love of wife and children ; intellec- 
tual culture, developed affections ; and the training of human souls. We 
have been thus led by a pleasurable instinct, and a virtuous obedience, to 
continue our race, and have found therein our best welfare and highest 
excellence. God has done this, yet has kept His secret. 
But science will ever interrogate nature ; does so boldly but not blam- 
ably. She will with telescope ceaselessly sweep the heavens ; she will 
with microscope untiringly explore a boundless life that everywhere teems 
unseen by the naked eye ; she ever applies her chemical tests and analyses 
as keen as the sharpened human intellect. Her researches are well re- 
warded ; but she may not know all. For often it happens, that ‘Seeing 
ye shall see, and shall not perceive.’”? With the microscope and scalpel 
the sources of life are explored, and science announces that all life, in the 
higher organizations, comes and is maintained by the blood propelled from 
the heart. Thence came the parental germs that have mét and started 
the embryonic life; thence has come every increment that has given the 
body growth from the gelatinous germ to the mature man. You have 
traced the physical being back to nearly its starting point, and found its 
component parts all to have been molecules of matter, or corpuscles, or 
cells in the blood. These the physiologist declares to be the physical basis 
of life. We may not venture to deny this conclusion, for his dissections 
and magnified sight have revealed what he describes, and it comports 
with our observations. But chemical tests can but imperfectly verify his 
observations, for they can only be applied to matter dead, and when life 
has ceased to resist nature’s chemistry, that chemistry is quick to change 
the material which had been the living source of life’s supply. The as- 
sisted eye has seen in that crimson current, says Huxley, ‘‘ innumerable 
multitudes of little, circular, discoidal bodies, or corpuscles, which float 
in it and give it its color, (and) a comparatively small number of colorless 
corpuscles, of somewhat larger size and very irregular shape.’? Huxley 
speaks of these as marvelously active, changing their form with great 
rapidity, as if independent organisms ; and their substance he calls proto- 
plasm. These he calls the units of the human body, and says: ‘ Beast 
and fowl, reptile and fish, mollusk, worm and polyp, are all composed of 
structural units of the same character, namely, masses of protoplasm 
with a nucleus.’? ‘Thus it becomes clear that all living powers are cog- 
nate, and that all living forms are fundamentally of one character.’ 
Thus while Darwin would make all living beings related by descent from 
a common parent, Huxley would make all to be related as creatures of 
the same blood. 
Now the only reliable basis for such conclusions seems to be the mag- 
nified vision, limitedly applied, revealing similarity of looks and activities. 
The elements of the universal protoplasm are stated to be ‘carbon, 
hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.”’? But it is not shown or said that these 
