Yes, It Is True That There Are

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

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.

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 Substance, Which Is Manifold In Its Forms And Protean In Its Transformations, Has, In Its State Of Living Matter, One Physiological Name Which Has Become Familiar, That Of Protoplasm.

Natural Selection Is Not The Wind Which Propels The Vessel, But The Rudder Which, By Friction, Now On This Side And Now On That, Shapes The Course.