22 Life and Love. 



made of simple colonies of cells, then the more 

 complex cell-colonies, until finally man himself 

 appeared, the crown to this marvellous expression 

 of divine power which we call life. 



As the earth was fitted to receive it, there doubt- 

 less came into being each higher form. So the 

 low forms of animal life are in all probability rep- 

 resentatives of the earlier forms, and by tracing 

 the development of life from below up, one acquires 

 not only knowledge concerning the structure of 

 individuals, but also concerning the history of the 

 advent of life. 



It is probable that plants and animals both came 

 from the same form of simple protoplasm, and 

 were brought into being by the power that makes 

 growth possible, — the same forces acting in both, 

 though expressing themselves differently. 



Plants, being able to obtain nutriment directly 

 from the mineral world, probably first assumed 

 definite form, while the animal, dependent upon 

 the vegetable for existence, wc believe to have 

 come later. 



In plants and animals alike, love as well as life 

 informs and makes beautiful the most lowly of 

 objects. 



The green scum of ponds may not seem an 

 attractive subject, yet what is more charming to 

 the eye than the delicate threads which form it, 

 when they are seen under the microscope? 



Even without the aid of the microscope this 



