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all vegetable life, as all animal, now existing, judging by all we see or 
know, are the continuous threads of the first created life of their respec- 
tive species, kept forever unbroken and unentangled. 
And as every species in vegetation selects and assimilates different 
elements from the soil or air, and for different parts of itself, as wood,. 
bark, leaf and flower, so does every different species of animal select 
those essential to its own well being, and to complete the creature that 
the life is busy in constructing, and it does construct, but that the parent 
was. These ends demand differing elements; and however seemingly 
alike their protoplasm and blood, those ana whatever else is tributary to 
the varied growth and differing developments, must be equally different. 
It is vain for science to say to the common sense of mankind that the cells 
that compose the bone and cartilages, tendon and muscle, the tissue, skin, 
hair, all opaque, and transparent eye, are identical in material, more than 
in shape or function, or fruit. The sight, the tests of chemistry, com- 
mercial scrutiny and scientific classification, alike contradict the theory, 
and tell us it cannot be true that the protoplasm or blood of animal and 
vegetable, and every kind of each, can be the same. The young of the 
mammalia drink milk drawn from the mother : and the milk of the dif- 
ferent kinds may look much alike, yet not be identical, and not alike be 
suitable to nourish the young of all. We may take leave to regard it as 
a myth that Romulus was suckled by a wolf; but will implicitly believe 
that neither ‘“‘do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles.’’ 
It is of necessity that all animals and vegetables that have a vital circu- 
lation must take their food into their circulations in finid form, that it 
may thereby traverse the body, and in sufficient, minuteness supply its 
wants of growth and repair where needed. The stomach of the animal 
elaborates the solid into fluid; the roots of the vegetable take up the 
material it wants, assisted by the rains and water that gives the required 
transporting fluidity. But that each process sends into the circulation 
the same elements for animal and tree, there is not furnished the begin- 
ning of any proof, while the different natures of the growth indicate very 
surely that their wants are not the same, that their supplies are different, 
as their products are infinitely diverse. It must, therefore, be mislead- 
ing to maintain the theory ‘that all living powers are cognate, and that 
all living forms are fundamentally of one character.’? There is yet a 
vegetable kingdom and an animal kingdom, and those infinitely diversi- 
fied. ‘There 7s one flesh of man, and another of beasts.’’ 
Seems it tedious and unnecessary thus to have traveled over the grounds 
of this theory in so much detail? The conclusion to which it is carried 
shows how important it is to have carefully considered every foundation- 
stone of the superstructure. It concerns man the most deeply of all ques- 
tions to know what he is and what he isto be. That such question is 
involved, is shown by the conclusion at which the theorist has arrived. In. 
his own estimation he has proved the protoplasm of the vegetable and 
animal, animal including man, to be the same. Thus Professor Huxley 
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