Christianity: The Logic of Creation

The mineral form then is the earliest or lowest evolution of the me. It is the me in an intensely inert state, in a passive state or state of rest simply. It is the me gdtting place or position first, in order to its subsequent experience of growth in the vegetable form, motion in the ani- mal, and action in the human form. We may say that it is the me in a foetal state, conceived but not yet born. Mineral life bears the same rela- tion to vegetation and animation, that the foetus bears to fully developed bodily life. Being desti- tute as yet of sensation, of sensibility to out- ward existence, it is of course devoid of visible form or individuality, and loses itself in the womb of the common mother. But the phenomena of Digitized by Google OP CONSCIOUS LIFE