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not argue to the being of God from each bit of work as a separate contrivance, but from those broad relations which disclose the lines of rational construction. The world was not built part by part, and cannot properly be reasoned from in that way.

§ 5. The vegetable kingdom advances the argument we have in hand in two particulars: it shows powers responsive in quite a new fashion --- a fashion of which physical forces give no suggestion --- to external conditions, and powers that express in their operation strictly intellectual relations. The fundamental consideration, that the composition of powers which is constructive of each specific form of life and makes it a distinct potency in the world is something more than a group of physical forces, we can best advance and defend in connection with animal life. We now simply specify a few of the more remarkable activities in this field.

The vegetable kingdom shows in its various parts an extended, delicate and peculiar sensitiveness to light. Roots shun it, stems seek it, leaves adjust themselves to it in one way, flowers in other ways, while tendrils, like roots, turn away from it. The light is the great constructive agency of this kingdom; the leaf recognizes the fact, and adjusts and readjusts itself, seeking those relations to the light which its own functions demand. If disturbed in this fitting position, it will, if possible, regain it. It is instinct with its own law and life. The root and the tendril, on the other hand, have another determination according to their functions, the one seeking nourishment and support, and the other