Faith In Order, Which Is The Basis

We May Take It To Be The Accepted Idea That The Mosaic Books Were Not Handed Down To Us For Our Instruction In Scientific Knowledge, And That It Is Our Duty To Ground Our Scientific Beliefs Upon Observation And Inference, Unmixed With Considerations Of A Different Order.

Yes, It Is True That There Are Times When You Do Wonder If Things Are Worth It But Usually Those Moments Pass As Soon As They Have Come.

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

Next It Was Found That It Was Physiologically And Structurally The Same In The Plant, That It Was The Living Part Of The Plant, That Which Manifested The Life And Did The Work In Vegetable As Well As In Animal Organisms.

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.