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"It has. taken a long process of evolution before 

 man could conceive the idea of a rational organic 

 order of the universe, in which each particular ele- 

 ment, though rejected as an end in itself, might be 

 reinstated as a necessary element of the whole, and 

 all with justice done to their special characteristics 

 might be united in " ' 



an all-embracing scheme, whether it be a landscape or a 

 whole world. Further we may say that even in the 

 consciousness of an animal (and why not in that of 

 a plant?) there is such a universal unity that it would 

 be absurd to treat its different appetites as isolated or 

 standing in merely external relations to each other. 

 Each animal and plant we may believe 



"feels itself in all it feels, and this gives an individual 

 unity to its life through all its changes," "indeed 

 three fourths of our own actions are governed by 

 memory and most frequently we act Uke animals: 

 plants also act, and if they do not think, at least feel 

 (which is still thought), though more dimly than 

 animals." ' 



As Goethe profotmdly observes: 



"the material world (animal or vegetable, animate 

 or inanimate) can only be tnily realized as the living 

 garment of Deity. " 



John Henry Newman was a poet and his instinct had 



" Leibnitz. 



