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living and the dead. What is the difference be- 

 tween a crystal and an organism, a stone and a 

 plant ? They have much in common. Both are 

 made of the same atoms. Both display the same 

 properties of matter. Both are subject to the same 

 physical laws. Both may be very beautiful. But 

 besides possessing all that the crystal has, the plant 

 possesses something more, — a mysterious something 

 called life. This life is not something which existed 

 in the crystal only in a less developed form. There 

 is nothing at all like it in the crystal. . . . When 

 from vegetable life we rise to animal life, here again 

 we find something original and unique — unique at 

 least as compared with the animal. From animal 

 life we ascend again to spiritual life. And here 

 also is something new, something still more unique. 

 He who lives the spiritual life has a distinct kind 

 of life added to all the other phases of life which 

 he manifests, — a kind of life infinitely more dis- 

 tinct than is the active life of a plant from the iner- 

 tia of a stone. . . . The natural man belongs essen- 

 tially to this present order of things. He is endowed 

 simply with a higher quality of the natural animal 

 life. But it is life of so poor a quality that it is 

 not life at all. ' He that hath not the Son hath 

 not life ; but he that hath the Son hath life ' — a 

 new and distinct and supernatural endowment. He 

 is not of this world, he is of the timeless state of 

 eternity. It doth not yet appear what he shall 

 he." 



In the chapter on Classification this distinction 



