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" This discovery is corroborative of the Science
of Mind, for this discovery shows that the multiplication
of certain animals takes place apart from sexual
conditions. The supposition that life germinates in eggs and
must decay after it has grown to maturity, if not before,
is shown by divine metaphysics to be a mistake, - a
blunder which will finally give place to higher theories
and demonstrations.
(The three processes)
Creatures of lower forms of organism are supposed
to have, as classes, three different methods of reproduction
and to multiply their species sometimes
through eggs, sometimes through buds, and
sometimes through self-division. According to recent
lore, successive generations do not begin with the birth of
new individuals, or personalities, but with the formation
of the nucleus, or egg, from which one or more individualities
subsequently emerge; and we must therefore look
upon the simple ovum as the germ, the starting-point, of
the most complicated corporeal structures, including those
which we call human. Here these material researches
culminate in such vague hypotheses as must necessarily
attend false systems, which rely upon physics and are devoid
of metaphysics.
(Deference to material law)
In one instance a celebrated naturalist, Agassiz, discovers
the pathway leading to divine Science, and beards
the lion of materialism in its den. At that
point, however, even this great observer mistakes
nature, forsakes Spirit as the divine origin of
creative Truth, and allows matter and material law to
usurp the prerogatives of omnipotence. He absolutely
drops from his summit, coming down to a belief in the
material origin of man, for he virtually affirms that
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