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■different parts of the body representing the organs about to be 

 formed, could not have been distinguished from one another, or 

 from those of embryos of the lower animals ; although the 

 results of their development differ so widely. 



Think of the remarkable differences of structure and action 

 which would exist in a few short weeks, and the new powers of 

 the bioplasts, as series succeeded series, and the yet more 

 wonderful potencies of structure-formation to be manifested at 

 the appointed time — surely evidence of the unseen designing 

 ^Lud sustaining power of Omnipotence — the only reasonable 

 explanation, that can be offered by the student of these 

 wonderful vital phenomena up to this time (1903). The living 

 particles not only possess the power within themselves of 

 giving origin to new living particles — these growing and in 

 turn producing others — the vital powers of each series being 

 -different from, and in nature higher and more advanced, than 

 those of their predecessors. 



Shall we not place all these vital phenomena in a class by 

 themselves absolutely distinct and separate from those of 

 non-living matter, and the non-living Cosmos ? Development, 

 growth, and the formation of structure, cannot in fact be 

 mechanical molecular or physical, but must be regarded as 

 having been directly determined, foreseen and ordained by 

 Infinite Power. 



When I consider the general facts of life, whether from the 

 point of view of the minute structure, composition and 

 properties, of the tissues as formed in the various classes of 

 organisms, from the lowly Protozoa up to man himself, or the 

 early changes occurring during the development, particularly of 

 man and the higher animals, from the collections of innumerable 

 mirmte moist colourless structureless moving particles of living 

 matter, each less than the one two-thousandth of an inch in 

 diameter, I cannot but wonder at the general resemblance and 

 .simplicity of the appearance and constitution of tlie living 

 matter, which when dead and subjected to chemical analysis, is 

 found to consist of but very few elements, all through living 

 nature. The evidence that neither the living groy:th, nor the 

 •characteristic tissue-forming capacity, is to be accounted for by 

 the chemical composition of the dead matter, hut hy life power 

 onhj, is conclusive. 



From living matter alone can living matter of any kind be 

 -derived, and there is every reason to believe this has been so 

 from the original creation of life ; for it cannot be shown that 

 life has been inherent in any atom or particle of non-living 



