Natural Selection Is Not The Wind Which

Your Candor Is Worth Everything To Your Cause. It Is Refreshing To Find A Person With A New Theory Who Frankly Confesses That He Finds Difficulties, Insurmountable, At Least For The Present.

Faith In Order, Which Is The Basis Of Science, Cannot Reasonably Be Separated From Faith In An Ordainer, Which Is The Basis Of Religion.

In Short, The Animal And Vegetable Lines, Diverging Widely Above, Join Below In A Loop.

We Have Really, That I Know Of, No Philosophical Basis For High And Low. Moreover, The Vegetable Kingdom Does Not Culminate, As The Animal Kingdom Does. It Is Not A Kingdom, But A Common-wealth; A Democracy, And Therefore Puzzling And Unaccountable From The Former Point Of View.

We Have Spoken Of Beings So Low In The Scale That The Individuals Throughout Their Whole Existence Are Not Sufficiently Specialized To Be Distinctively Plant Or Animal: Yet These Are Definite Life In Simpler Shape.