So we may say in the light of established science: Cells in the crannied flesh, I pluck you out of your crannies; Little cells, throbs and all. And if I could understand What you are, throbs and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. V. LOTZE, BEALE, AND HUXLEY ON LIVING TISSUES. THE FIFTIETH LECTURE IN THE BOSTON MONDAY LECTURESHIP, DELIVERED IN PARK STREET CHURCH OCT. 30. "THIS seems to me to be as sure a teaching of science as the law of gravitation, that life proceeds from life, and nothing but life.”. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, "Inaugural Address before the British Association," Nature, vol. iv. p. 269. "THE Scientific mind can find no repose in the mere registration of sequences in nature. The further question obtrudes itself with resist!ess might, Whence came the sequences?" - PROFESSOR TYNDALL Fragments of Science, p. 64. V. LOTZE, BEALE, AND HUXLEY ON LIVING TISSUES. PRELUDE ON CURRENT EVENTS. OUR people are about entering on a presidential election in presence of all the other nations who are our guests. If a man's head, character, and career are each a truncated cone, lacking all the upper zones, he is no fit centennial candidate. This autumn's choice may be a rudder of the cause of civil-service reform in many a century to come. Both political parties assert that a great evil exists in the management of our party political patronage; and both call loudly for reform. Is it not the duty of thoughtful men in all the professions to see to it that gilded demagogism does not teach the people a lie in the smooth name of democracy? We are told that we must beware of an aristocracy of office-holders. We are assured that (ivil-service reform, such as both parties demand, may end in the creation of an office-holding class. Which is the worse, to have the great mass of the minor offices in politics the gift of the higher offices, the upper and lower playing into each other's hands, like gift-enterprises and their patrons, or to have th rule established which Washington and Jefferson and Adams and Madison indorsed, that men shall neither be appointed nor removed on the principle that to political victors belong all political spoils, but shall be put into office for ability and availability, and kept there for good behavior? Let us take patronage from party, and give it to the people. Vast gift-enterprises in politics are the subtlest threat in the American future. They call for attention from all scholars, although, perhaps, not for much discussion in the pulpit as yet. Ministers know much of which they do not speak in public. But, in our circles of influence, it is assuredly. in our power to turn public thought upon this enormous mischief in the current political life of a yet young nation. Our Woolseys, our Danas, our Tildens, and our Hayeses are united; and shall educated men of all classes not unite the parlor, the platform, and the pulpit on this now strategic theme? On civil-service reform, or any other great cause, give me a union of the parlor, the pulpit, and the platform, and I will insure a right attitude of the press; and give me a union of the parlor, the pulpit, the platform, and the press, and a right attitude of politics and of the police will follow. [Applause.] THE LECTURE. At certain seasons, it was the custom of the Doges of Venice to symbolize the marriage of their city to the sea by casting a ring into the waves. Transfig |