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initiated the beings of the successive generations. We have only to con- 
sider all we know to be assured of these truths. No protoplasm could 
now exist, unless life had produced it. It never has been chemically or 
otherwise than by life produced, except as first created. It is only found 
in the vital current produced from dead food. The immediate cause of 
it there must, therefore, be the preceding vital processes, endued with 
power to impart life to dead matter. In this result, Dr. Carpenter con- 
siders the liver and spleen perform important service. 
The interest of science and truth require that we here take a yet closer 
view of life’s origin and perpetuation. Our love of truth and our rever- 
ence for God will preserve us from every unhallowed thought. No obser- 
vation or philosophy can account for the first pair of each living species, 
otherwise than by the logic that all that we behold must have had a 
transcending Creator. Our race must have had its Adam and Eve, or 
first parents, ungenerated. Judging from ali that observation, and 
science, and history can teach us, every subsequent being has had its 
incipient germ of life from a male parent, but only to become another life 
when that germ has met the prepared oyule in the mother that is to afford 
the offspring its nourishment and growth. It is only that seminal germ 
that is the incipient life, that first unites with the ovules and afterwards 
appropriates every other particle of matter that enters into the life of the 
new being. How nourished from the mother, we have noticed. In due 
time, but by coarser food, the man and the woman of each generation 
are built up to their mature perfection. But it was the life, beginning as 
a speck, that began and has completed the structure by employing the 
subservient molecular matter. /The matter of itself could have taken no 
step in the process ; it could have sent not a cell to form the growin 
living structure, if the pre-existing life had not prepared that cell from 
matter drawn by the-life-process into the life-current, and afterwards 
placed it where the life-builder required its service. That which was 
dead in the stomach took life in the blood ; for the life-blood had power 
to impart its life to the elements it needed for the body’s growth. 
It is true now as when Moses gave his commandments, ‘‘The blood is 
the life ; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.” 
Dr. Carpenter says: ‘After the Chyle and Lymph have began to flow 
into the circulating current, the continued generation of red corpuscles is 
due to the progressive metamorphosis of the corpuscles of those fluids, 
is an opinion that has come to be very generally received by physiolo- 
gists.” (Ib. Sec. 168.) ‘Looking, again, to the undoubted vitality of 
the corpuscles, and to the strong ground for regarding fibrin also as an 
instrument of vital force, we cannot but perceive that the life of the 
blood is as legitimate a phrase, and ought to carry as much meaning in 
it, as the life of a muscle.”’ (Ib. Sec. 221.) “*Thus then, we seem justified 
in the belief that the Blood, like the solid tissues, has a formative power 
of its own, which it exerts in the appropriation of the new material sup- 
plied to it from the food.’’ (Ib. 222.) ‘‘There is not, in fact, a more 
