Wesley Corpus

10. Proceed we to the vegetable kingdom. Who can demonstrate that the sap, in any vegetable, performs a regular circulation through its vessels, or that it does not Who can point out the specific difference between one kind of plant and another or the peculiar, internal conformation and disposition of their component parts Yea, what man living thoroughly understands the nature and properties of any one planet under heaven 11. With regard to animals: Are microscopic animals, so called, real animals or no If they are, are they not essentially different from all other animals in the universe, as not requiring any food, not generating or being generated Are they no animals at all, but merely inanimate particles of matter, in a state of fermentation How totally ignorant are the most sagacious of men touching the whole affair of generation! even the generation of men. In the book of the Creator, indeed, were all our members written, "which day by day were fashioned, when as yet were none of them:" But what means was the first motion communicated to the punctum saliens When, and how, was the immortal spirit superadded to the senseless clay It is mystery all: And we can only say, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."