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.

It Remains To Consider What Attitude Thoughtful Men And Christian Believers Should Take Respecting Them, And How They Stand Related To Beliefs Of Another Order.

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.

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.

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