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than they do to mammalian phenomena, for they exhibit no analogy 
whatever to either. 
We are not one step nearer to the " vitalizing of the primary 
jelly-speck or sarcode-granule by the operation of a change of force 
forming part of the constitution of Kos-mos " than we were before 
Owen accepted the doctrine of the daily and hourly formation of 
living beings out of inanimate matter by the conversion of phy- 
sical and chemical into vital modes of force. And it is very 
remarkable that even Owen is unable to suggest a better instance 
of the analogy between physical and vital actions than is afforded 
by magnetism. The remarks he has offered might have been made 
a century ago, and some of the very same arguments he has 
adduced, advanced in their favour. Facts and observations have 
of late multiplied enormously ; but it is evident that no arguments 
in favour of the physical theory of life are to be deduced from these, 
or the Physico-chemical school would very soon have put them for- 
ward, in place of the plaintive monotones people are becoming so 
tired of hearing. Driven to extremities, they are at last compelled 
to discard observation and experiment, and announce the advent of 
a new philosophy. An expectant multitude is delighted with the 
boldness of their speculations and the imposing grandeur of their 
prophetic disclosures. In silence it contemplates the marvels of 
the new creation hourly springing into existence, built up ab 
initio by epigenetic " Nomogeny," the offspring of which is 
gradually to advance until, in the ages yet to come, it shall attain 
perfection by " Formifaction " and "Derivation." 
