Natural Selection Is Not The Wind Which

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.

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.

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.

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

It Was Always Understood That Plants And Animals, Though Completely Contrasted In Their Higher Representatives, Approached Each Other Very Closely In Their Lower And Simpler Forms. But They Were Believed Not To Blend.