Design in Nature Volume 1; Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the Inorganic and Organic Kingdoms as Exemplified in Matter, Force, Life, G (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...powers possessed by the lowest and most rudimentary plants and animals, and for the successive embryological changes and. stages through which plants and animals pass during development. The differentiations which characterise the embryological changes referred to are stereotyped, so to speak, in adult plants and animals. All the fluids and tissues of plants and animals, in some respects infinitely diverse, cannot possibly be the product of one or two simple substances. This is a matter of common sense no less than of science. CREATION A PROGRESSIVE WORK The consideration of ultimate matter and force raises the whole subject of creation. The most natural view to take of this stupendous question is to regard it as a progressive rather than a finished work. The history of the heavenly bodies, our planet, and plants and animals favours this hypothesis. It can scarcely be doubted that worlds are in process of formation at the present day, and that plants and animals, as a complementary part of these worlds, are being continually produced. The inorganic and organic kingdoms form one great whole, and are correlated not only in their aggregates but in their details. They are interdependent in the strictest sense, and what is taken from the one is returned to the other, sooner or later. Both kingdoms have a common origin, in the sense that they are the work of the same hand and are controlled and supervised by the same master intellect. 38. Scriptural Account of Creation. The progressive view of creation is supported by revelation. The account given of creation in the Old Testament is one of progress and separate creative acts. The inorganic kingdom was created first, then came the organic; the plants appearing before the animals, and both appearing accordin...