Seen and the Unseen. 
705 
1885.] 
whole as a receptacle of life. “ First there is an Embryo of 
all other existences, — a Germ containing the essential pro- 
perties to produce higher states of refinement. The very 
moment that the first particle woke into life, from that 
moment Life, Sensation, and intelligence were determined 
as inevitable and endless results. Life is a progressive 
development of the principle of Motion. Marine plants 
were the first forms suited for this development.” “ The 
whole creation, from the highest to the lowest formations, 
has proceeded in an order of succession so as to exhibit a 
general correspondence between Geological and Zoological 
formations.”* 
“ The substance in granite known as quartz, the most 
perfect compound of oxygen and silicon combined with lime- 
stone in which carbon was extremely condensed, by the union 
of these and the heat generated thereby, adting with the 
favourable affinities of the water and the atmosphere, created 
in some portions of the sea’s beds and from partially pro- 
truding rocks, a composition assuming apparently the state 
of rest, while in reality the imperceptible motion existing in 
it was decomposing and uniting particles, and creating 
a principle of internal vitality, or vis vitce.” 
Thus “ was breathed into existence the forms termed 
flowerless and marine plants, the highest type of which is 
the fucoides .” Then follows a description of the succession 
of the forms of life, till the vegetable development of the 
grauwacke and clay, classed as avertebrated because sensa- 
tion had not yet become a distinct principle.” “ The 
* According to Barry O’Meara a curious illustration of evolution (“ Napo- 
leon in Exile,” vol. i., p. 198) was delivered by Napoleon : — “ There is a link 
between animals and the Deity. Man is merely a more perfedt animal than 
the rest. He reasons better. But how do we know that animals have not a 
language of their own ? My opinion is that it is presumption in us to say No, 
because we do not understand them. Ahorse has memory, knowledge, and 
love : he knows his master from the servants, though the latter are more con- 
stantly with him. I had a horse myself who knew me from any other person, 
and manifested, by capering and proudly marching with his head eredt when I 
was on his back, his knowledge that he bore a person superior to the others by 
whom he was surrounded. Neither would he allow any other person to mount 
him except one groom who constantly took care of him, and when rode by him 
his motions were far different, and such as seemed to say that he was conscious 
that he bore an inferior. When I lost my way I was accustomed to throw the 
reins down his neck, and he always discovered it, in places where I, with all 
my observation and boasted superior knowledge, could not.” (What a nut for 
Romanes had he hut known this anecdote! It is a better illustration of the 
intelledt of animals than an educated oyster.) “ Who can deny the sagacity 
of do^s ? There is a link between all animals. Plants are so many animals 
who eat and drink, and there are gradations up to man, who is only the most 
perfect of them all. The same spirit animates them all in a greater or lesser 
degree.” 
