ABSTRACT
For it is quite certain that in terms of merely mechanical principles of nature we cannot even become adequately familiar with, much less explain, organized beings and how they are internally possible. So certain is this that we may boldly state that it is absurd for human beings even to attempt it, or to hope that some day another Newton may arise who would explain to us, in terms of natural laws unordered by any intention, how even a mere blade of grass is produced
