136 PROFESSOR LIONEL BEALE, F.R.C.P., F.R.S., ON THE 



Professor Lionel Beale. — Yes, from within outwards. 

 Mr. Rouse. — Whereas in all lifeless matter, the deposits are from 

 the outside 1 



Then I would ask Professor Beale whether the chemical 

 compounds of these bioplasts, that form man as well as other 

 animals, are absolutely the same ? 



Then I would say it is monstrous and absurd to speak of man as 

 a machine, for the simple reason that a machine never grows, even 

 regarding the cell itself as living matter, which we now know it is 

 not, but even regarding a cell as living matter, it of course affords 

 no analogy in the inorganic world. 



Then I would say, on the theory of development and complete 

 evolution, why should all insects have exactly three stages 1 If 

 this theory really had any true existence, one kind of insect would 

 have two forms, another three, another four, and another five or 

 six and so on, and they would be variously developed up to higher 

 and higher perfection ; whereas there are innumerable thousands of 

 species, each one of which has exactly three forms or stages. 

 [Hear hear.] 



Rev. John Tuckwell, M.R. A.S. — I should like to say how deeply 

 indebted I feel to Professor Beale for that extremely thoughtful 

 and splendid paper that he has given us this afternoon. No doubt 

 in all our minds many questions have arisen, and I am sure there 

 are many that cannot yet be answered. Professor Beale has told 

 us how difficult many of those points are. 



I was particularly glad that he called attention, however, to the 

 commencement of life. Our globe is said to have been at one time 

 a mass of molten matter, and it is always difficult to understand 

 how, upon the materialistic ground, there can be any connection 

 between the first germ of life and the moist ashes of a burned 

 world. Professor Beale has, I think, rendered great service in 

 calling attention to the extreme difficulty of accounting for the first 

 germ of life on the theory of evolution. 



Another point I am very thankful for his calling attention to, is 

 what I may refer to as the higher development of the higher species. 

 If, as we are told, every germ of life that propagates itself can only 

 result from similar life of the same form, or class, then the difficulty 

 is to '"understand how, by any process of evolution, the bioplasm 

 of the plant can ultimately become animal bioplasm, or how 



