Faith In Order, Which Is The Basis

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.

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.

We Have Really, That I Know Of, No Philosophical Basis For High And Low. Moreover, The Vegetable Kingdom Does Not Culminate, As The Animal Kingdom Does. It Is Not A Kingdom, But A Common-wealth; A Democracy, And Therefore Puzzling And Unaccountable From The Former Point Of View.

Yes, It Is True That There Are Times When You Do Wonder If Things Are Worth It But Usually Those Moments Pass As Soon As They Have Come.

Next It Was Found That It Was Physiologically And Structurally The Same In The Plant, That It Was The Living Part Of The Plant, That Which Manifested The Life And Did The Work In Vegetable As Well As In Animal Organisms.