LIVING GOD OF LIVING NATURE FROM THE SCIENCE SIDE. 281 



Viewed as an isolated preparation its interest can hardly 

 be appreciated, or its meaning clearly understood. 



Many of the most important conclusions arrived at by me, 

 on the structure, growth and action of the tissues of man and 

 animals were published in the Transactions of the Royal, and of 

 the Eoyal Microscopical Society, in my Croonian lecture to the 

 Eoyal Society, and Lumleian and other lectures at the lioyal 

 College of Physicians between 1855-75. A brief account of 

 the principal observations, illustrated with many drawings on 

 wood by myself, will be found in Biojjiasm, an Introdicction to 

 Physiolofiij and Medicine, pp. 3i5 et seq. (J. and A. Churchill, 

 Great Marlborough Street), and in the later editions of How to 

 ivork with the Microscope (Harrison and Sons, Pall Mall). 



Unfortunately the results of my work were strongly opposed 

 to the doctrines of life and living growth, generally taught in 

 the schools, and pressed upon the notice of the public, during 

 the time of Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall, when no one who 

 had been led from his observations to form conclusions different 

 from those advanced by them, could get a patient hearing. 

 And so things have gone on to this time, and Universal 

 Physical Law, the lifeless physics of the entire universe, living 

 as well as non-living, prevail. But physics cannot explain 

 ordinary facts of living nature. Creation by and the depen- 

 dence of the whole world of life upon God may be denied and 

 ridiculed ; but, as is well known, no one has explained from 

 the physical or chemical side, one single case of life or living 

 growth. To get over the difficulty, some authorities, and 

 especially Herbert Spencer, insist, that physical deposition, 

 aggregation, crystallization, and the mere accumulation of solid 

 particles are examples of groicth, thereby sanctioning the idea 

 of a Godless living world. 



By the telescope man has been able to see the wonderful 

 works of God that do not live, but were created and completed (?) 

 seons ago, by His Infinite Power, and now, and for ever, will be 

 governed, by His eternal unchanging universal law. 



By the microscope, man is enabled to see and form some 

 idea of the design, construction and gradual formation of the 

 wonderful living, ever-changing, growing and multiplying 

 li^dng organisms, which constitute living nature as we know it 

 at this time, and which living nature receives unceasing 

 support, and, as many think, is under the direct supervision of 

 Almighty power which shall never cease. Does not careful 

 minute investigation in all departments of living nature, 

 convince man of God's living presence in every part of the life 



