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are but superficial, resultant attributes, far from 

 being deep enough to determine the order, kind and 

 beauty of the organic kingdoms. Even outside, in 

 the inorganic world, you will find something deeper 

 than form and structure. You can see it in the 

 crystal, and in the commonest chemical elements. 

 How much more in the unity, totality and economy 

 of a living being! 



127. Take, for instance, yellow phosphorus and 

 red phosphorus. To the chemist they are an 

 identical element, though he recognizes that the 

 same element must be in different states. Quite 

 so; for the element as yellow phosphorus is an 

 active poison, while as red it is inert. There must 

 be something here besides what chemistry weighs 

 in its scales; and chemistry no less than biology 

 becomes philosophical, in its endeavor to explain it. 

 Again, why should piperine, asks Professor Tidy, 

 be the poison of all poisons to keep you awake, and 

 morphine the poison of all poisons to put you to 

 sleep, although to the chemist these two bodies are 

 of identical composition? 



128. Oh, to the truly philosophical mind what a 

 revelation runs through all nature of a design and 

 a designer playing at all times, playing TheMiracil . 

 in the world, delighting to reveal himself ions in 

 and give occupation to the children of Science * 

 meni All that we know in every range and sweep 

 of nature is but the smallest part of what remains 

 to break upon us in number, weight and measure, 



