Yes, It Is True That There Are

It Was Implicitly Supposed That Every Living Thing Was Distinctively Plant Or Animal; That There Were Real And Profound Differences Between The Two, If Only They Could Be Seized.

This View, As A Rounded Whole And In All Its Essential Elements, Has Very Recently Disappeared From Science. It Died A Royal Death With Agassiz.

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

Agassiz, When I Saw Him Last, Had Read But A Part Of Origin Of Species. He Says It Is Poor-very Poor!!. The Fact Is, He Is Very Much Annoyed By It.

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.