256 The Lesson of the Unnucleated Cell . [May, 
?reat unity of power, hidden in the silence of the unknown 
-that great, yet open, secret scattered broadcast ovetjth - 
nnm „ na i Nature awa ting disentanglement. Heie tne great 
” e °” t B« continually developing in mutations and trans- 
fo Wh»“a question is Cosmic it is an embodied Science 
section is then more prominent than anothei. Biol gy * y 
claim the solution, but the claim sinks into insignificance 
when the grand aspects of the Universe are in ques • 
The first presence of life on the Earth, the parent of all its 
Phenomena are conjunctive ; of this Biology may claim to 
advance its proofs. Had the lichen been unaccompanied y 
the fungus the bare face of the rock had never been closed, 
hut lone before this era the unnucleated cell was working 
t power for, although we are told that there are no 
debris of the Protozoa,— of these umcel lulai things,, 
the debris of the monads exist in countless bnlions , t 
creatures* so small as only to be. discerned by the mart 
powerful microscope, yet so vast in nun ^ 
of fluid may contain more individuals than theie aie 
£ habitants on the face of the Globe. Has Geology nothing 
to advance against the position th at these minute «eatm 
leave no debris ? Ehrenberg computed that theie aie so 
times more than a million of these animals in a cubic nch 
of chalk It has been demonstrated that rocks whiJi be on & 
to the most ancient epoch of life on earth, somet.mes con- 
taining strata of vast magnitude, are only fo “any gia 
yards of Infusoria. In Richmond, U.S., the deposit o 
r a r-m t tltprp a re according to Darwin’s theory of descent, 
* In cases of descent there are, nnncinles • • known as 
“ two guiding, and in a certain sense antagon stic pnnc p charadlers of 
the laws of heredity and variation. .The first awern^ ^ descendants 
an organism, at all stages of „ a ’ sserts that offsprings never exadtly 
at corresponding stages. ^ he aftion 0 f these two principles 
a isaa * sms 
ontogony, repeats the history of 
its ancestral development.’ - marv forms of all organisms without 
+ The Monera are the most ancient prim y of | lime or mU cus 
exception (p. 50). “ The simp e omogen i( closely conne&ed 
. . .constitutes their entire bodies ^•)» and „ j^eaTity every naked simple 
with anorgana than with or vegetable body, cannot be distin- 
cell, whether it proceeds from an animal or vegera . g n > t ’ hi but a simp le 
guished from ®7imp* 0 f cell-matter or plasma, containing a kernel ” 
primary cell, a naked little tump „ and it is evident that it ongin- 
(p. 54). “ and F Tslmole Mo > lera (Protamceba) by the important process of 
jiSSKS (without kefnS) into areal cell (with kernel) was 
accomplished » (p. 5 6).-Haeckel’s History of Creation, Vol. . 
