Faith In Order, Which Is The Basis

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.

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

It Was Always Understood That Plants And Animals, Though Completely Contrasted In Their Higher Representatives, Approached Each Other Very Closely In Their Lower And Simpler Forms. But They Were Believed Not To Blend.

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 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.