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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.

The Former Conviction That These Two Kingdoms Were Wholly Different In Structure, In Function, And In Kind Of Life, Was Not Seriously Disturbed By The Difficulties Which The Naturalist Encountered When He Undertook To Define Them.

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.

Many Years Ago It Was Taught That Plants And Animals Were Composed Of Different Materials: Plants, Of A Chemical Substance Of Three Elements,- Carbon, Hydrogen, And Oxygen; Animals Of One Of Four Elements, Nitrogen Being Added To The Other Three.

Indeed Upon Much That May Have To Say, I Expect Rather The Charitable Judgment Than The Full Assent Of Those Whose Approbation I Could Most Wish To Win.