The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

various parts in the same individual embryo, whichultimately become very unlike and serve for diversepurposes, being at an early period of growth alike;-the common, but not invariable resemblance betweenthe embryos or larvre of the most distinct species inthe same class;-the embryo often retaining whilstwithin the egg or womb, structures which are of noservice to it, either at that or at a later period of life."VI.NON-ADVANCEMENT OF LOWER ORDERS. Page 158.Mr. Darwin's answer to the difficulty put by Agassizis this;-"On our theory the continued existence oflowly organisms offers no difEculty; for natural selection,or the survival of the fittest, does not necessarilyinclude progressive development,-it only takes advantageof such variations as arise and are beneficialto each creature under its complex relations of life."-Origin of Species, sixth edition, p. 98. This wears theaspect of a limitation of the theory, and to that extentan acknowledgment of the force of the reasoning ofAgassiz.VII.PROTOPLASM. Page 131."Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basisof all life; " thus 'c all living forms are fundamentallyof one character." " All the forms of Protoplasmwhich have yet been examined contain the four ele-