text:  Suppose--what indeed nowhere exists--an inert matter and let it be suddenly endowed with motion so that two particles should fly towards each other from the utmost bounds of the universe; were not this almost as strange a property as that which endows an irritable tissue or an organ of secretion? Is not the world _one_--the creature of one God--dividing itself with constant interchange of parts into the sentient and the non-sentient in order so to speak to become conscious of itself? Are we to place a great chasm between the sentient and the non-sentient so that it shall be derogation to a poor worm to have no higher genealogy than the element which is the lightning of heaven and too much honour to the subtle chemistry of the earth to be the father of a crawling subject of some bag or sack or imperceptible globule of animal life? No; we have no recoil against this generation of an animalcule by the wonderful chemistry of God; our objection to this doctrine is that it is not proved