PLA^s'TS l.\ KEL.VTiO.\ it) .MAX 357 



And again, after discussing the various effects pro<luce(l by 

 that wonderful substance chlorophyll, he says: 



" We see the effective apparatus, we niugnisu the f(x)(l-ga.scg 

 and food-salts collected for working up, wo know that tlie nun's 

 rays act as the motive force, and we also identify the prodiu-t^ 

 which appear completed in the chloropliyil granules. By careful 

 comparison of various cells containing chlorophyll, having found 

 by experience that under certain external conditions the wliole ap- 

 paratus becomes disintegrated and destroyed, it is indeed permiftrti- 

 ble to hazard a conclusion about the propelling forces. But what 

 is altogether puzzling is, how the active forces work, how the sun\s 

 rays are able to bring it about that the atoms of the raw mat<.'rial 

 abandon their previous grouping, become displaced, intermix one 

 with another, and shortly reappear in stable combinations under a 

 wholly different arrangement. It is the more difficult to gain a 

 clear idea of these processes, because it is not a question of thai dis- 

 placement of the atoms called decomposition, but of tliat process 

 which is known as combination or synUicsis'' (p. 377). 



I have made these quotations from one of the greatest Ger- 

 man \vriters on botany^ in order to show that a professor of 

 the science, with a most extensive knowledge of every aspect 

 of plant-life, supports the conclusion I had already reached 

 from a consideration of some of the broader phenomena of 

 animal life and organisation. In the last paragraph (pioted 

 he even shows that phenomena occur during the growth of 

 the plant, which are, as I suggested from other facts, a»ni- 

 parable in complexity with those of the metamoqihosis of the 

 higher insects, and, therefore, equally requiring the agenc}* 

 of some high directive power for an adequate rati(uuil (explana- 

 tion of them. 



I am quite aware that this view, of the earth and organic 

 nature having been designed for the development of the Innnan 

 race, and further, that it has been so dc-iirned that in the 

 course of its entire cvolutlnn, ii-; detailed I'eatures and organi- 

 sation have been such as not only to serve the purposes of the 



