* SCIENTIFIC FAITH ONCE MORE 
produced homogeneous plasma-granules. As these 
grew they divided, to form still larger plasma-gran- 
ules of a homogeneous character, and the result is 
what he calls the monera, — the first bit of living 
unorganized matter, a cell without nuclei. 
Out of this monera, by surface strain and chemi- 
cal differentiation and other obscure processes, that 
wonder, the nuclear cell, arose — the architect of all 
living things on the globe. Our bodies, and the bod- 
ies of all other living beings, are simply multipli- 
cations of cells, all fundamentally the same, — the 
work of a complex microscopic mechanism that seems 
to know from the start the part it is to play in the 
world, and proceeds to build all the diversities of 
living forms that we know; but why, in the one case, 
it builds a flea, or a cat, or a monkey, or a man, and 
in another a flower, or a pine, or an oak, Haeckel’s 
exposition does not help us to understand. 
Do we know of anything in the laws of matter and 
force, as we see them in the non-living world, that 
would lead us to expect such novel results? Why 
the cell should build anything, since the colony of 
living cells that Dr. Carrel has kept going for a 
year or more builds nothing, but only multiplies its 
units, is a question which Haeckel’s chemistry and 
physics will never be able to answer. 
“The organs of a living body,” he says, “perform 
their functions chiefly by virtue of their chemical 
composition.” Undoubtedly, but what made it a 
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