[10] "The Scientific Basis of Faith." By J. J. Murphy, p. 466. [11] Op. cit., p. 333. [12] _Ibid._, p. 333. [13] _Ibid._, p. 331. [14] "Analogy," chap. vii. [15] "Unseen Universe," 6th Ed., pp. 89, 90. [16] "Essays," vol. i. p. 40. [17] "A Modern Symposium."--_Nineteenth Century_, vol. i. p. 625. [18] Beck: "Bib. Psychol.," Clark's Tr., Pref., 2d Ed., p. xiii. [19] "First Principles," p. 161. [20] Wordsworth's _Excursion_, Book iv. [21] "The Correlation of Physical Forces," 6th Ed., p. 181 _et seq._ [22] "Unseen Universe," 6th Ed., p. 88. [23] "Old Faiths in New Light," by Newman Smith. Unwin's English edition, p. 252. [24] The Duke of Argyll: _Contemporary Review_, Sept., 1880, p. 358. [25] "Poetic Interpretation of Nature," p. 115. [26] 6th edition, p. 235. [27] _Ibid._, p. 286. [28] "Unseen Universe," p. 96. [29] "Unseen Universe," p. 100. [30] "Science and Culture," p. 259. [31] Hinton's "Philosophy and Religion," p. 40. [32] 2 Cor. iv. 18. BIOGENESIS. "What we require is no new Revelation, but simply an adequate conception of the true essence of Christianity. And I believe that, as time goes on, the work of the Holy Spirit will be continuously shown in the gradual insight which the human race will attain into the true essence of the Christian religion. I am thus of opinion that a standing miracle exists, and that it has ever existed--a direct and continued influence exerted by the supernatural on the natural."--_Paradoxical Philosophy._ "He that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not Life."--_John._ "Omne vivum ex vivo."--_Harvey._ For two hundred years the scientific world has been rent with discussions upon the Origin of Life. Two great schools have defended exactly opposite views--one that matter can spontaneously generate life, the other that life can only come from preëxisting life. The doctrine of Spontaneous Generation, as the first is called, has been revived within recent years by Dr. Bastian, after a series of elaborate experiments on the Beginnings of Life. Stated in his own words, his conclusion is this: "Both observation and experiment unmistakably testify to the fact that living matter is constantly being formed _de novo_, in obedience to the same laws and tendencies which determined all the more simple chemical combinations."[33] Life, that is to say, is not the Gift of Life. It is capable of springing into being of itself. It can be Spontaneously Generated.