n degree, He alone can know who not only said,
"Let the earth bring forth the living creature, the beast of the
earth after his kind, and it was so;" but who said, "Let us make man
in our image, who himself breathed into his nostrils the breath of
Life, and man became a living soul."

The third case which I would apply to my own attempt would be that
of the inquirer, who, presuming to know nothing of the power that
moves the whole machine, takes those parts of it which are presented
to his view, seeks to reduce its various movements to as few and
simple laws of motion as possible, and out of their separate and
conjoint action proceeds to explain and appropriate the structure
and relative positions of the works. In obedience to the
canon,--"Principia non esse multiplicanda praeter summam necessitatem
cui suffragamur non ideo quia causalem in mundo unitatem vel ratione
vel experientia perspiciamus, sed illam ipsam indagamus impulsu
intellectus, qui tantundem sibi in explicatione phaenomenorum
profecisse videtur quantum ab codem principio ad plurima rationata
descendere ipsi concessum est."

8 The arborescent forms on a frosty morning, to be seen on the window
and pavement, must have _some_ relation to the more perfect forms
developed in the vegetable world.

9 Thus we may say that whatever is organized from without, is a
product of mechanism; whatever is mechanised from within, is a
production of organization.

10 "The matter that surrounds us is divided into two great classes,
living and dead; the latter is governed by physical laws, such as
attraction, gravitation, chemical affinity; and it exhibits physical
properties, such as cohesion, elasticity, divisibility, &c. Living
matter also exhibits these properties, and is subject, in great
measure, to physical laws. But living bodies are endowed moreover
with a set of properties altogether different from these, and
contrasting with them very remarkably." (Vide Lawrence's Lectures,
p. 121.)

11 Much against my will I repeat this scholastic term, _multeity_, but
I have sought in vain for an unequivocal word of a less repulsive
character, that would convey the notion in a positive and not
comparative sense in kind, as opposed to the _unum et simplex_, not
in degr