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It is clear that as yet we know nothing, and can know nothing, of the 
commencement of life. All our knowledge is of results, and not of causes ; 
organization begins from the invisible and intangible world, and not from 
some imagined “ protoplasm.” 
There is a fund of good sense and good feeling in the female members 
of the community to which I can appeal in the present argument. These 
know that if the “ scientists ” could succeed in constructing a Frankenstein, 
or man-machine, consisting entirely of atoms of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, 
and carbon, together with phosphorus and certain earths and metals, 
plus eighty per cent, of water, the only feelings excited by such an 
apparition would be of curiosity perhaps, but of unmingled horror and 
disgust. The mother delights to see in her babe the reproduction of the 
very being she admires, and knows that her offspring will inherit the 
essential nature of its parents. As this nature cannot be shown to be 
entirely materialistic, she will be slow to credit the materialistic theories 
referred to. 
There is a whole world of thought connected with the Third of Genesis, on 
subjects which science is bound to explain, but which it simply stumbles 
over, as it does indeed over others in the preceding chapters ; as, for 
instance, over the question — how the species could be continued whilst in 
the course of ages the sexes were being “ differentiated ” one from the other ? 
Some of these points indicate, in a way not to be mistaken, that man is a 
special creation, and wholly different to the beasts of the field. 
(E. p. 221.) 
The halves being respectively A, the whole nutritive system, comprising 
the observing faculties, the anterior part of the head, the osseous part of the 
face, the forms of the organs of sense, and the tone of the voice ; and B, the 
whole locomotive system, naturally connected with the cerebel, or organ of 
will, the posterior part of the head, the few more movable parts of the face, 
as the external ear, under lip, lower part of the nose, eyebrows, and the 
external forms of the body, in so far as they depend on the muscles, as well 
as the forms of the limbs, even to the fingers, toe-nails, &c. ; also probably 
the skin and its appendages. 
Either parent may give either series A or B. The consequence is that no 
child is exactly like either father or mother ; thus, if a child is said 
exactly to resemble the father from the series A, the probability is that the 
dispositions will be those of the mother, who will have communicated the 
series B. 
Common observation, whether in reference to animals or to the human 
race, will sufficiently confirm the above in its leading details, which I take 
from Walker on “ Intermarriage,” and which conspicuously illustrate the 
pleasing variety which meets our view in Nature. Another provision, 
tending to the same end, is the constant crossing over of peculiarities of one 
