The physical laws
may explain the inorganic world; the biological laws may account for the
development of the organic. But of the point where they meet,--of that
strange border-land between the dead and the living,--science is silent.
It is as if God had placed everything in earth and heaven in the hands
of nature, but had reserved a point at the genesis of life for His
direct appearing."[6]
[Footnote 6: Henry Drummond, "Natural Law in the Spiritual World,"
Chapter I.]
It would be superfluous to emphasize further this great outstanding fact
that the not-living cannot become the living by any of the processes
which we call natural; and it would be presumptuous to attempt to
emulate these eloquent words by seeking to emphasize the completeness
with which this great Law of Biogenesis confirms the truth of a real
Creation; for the supreme grandeur and importance of this law could be
only obscured by so doing.
II
Perhaps some of the most impressive lessons on this subject will be
found in connection with the history of the discovery of this great Law
of Biogenesis, which says that life can come only from life. For by
studying the history of the way in which this great Law has been
established, we cannot fail to be impressed with the thought that back
of all the complex array of living forms in our modern world which go on
perpetuating themselves in orderly ways according to natural law, they
could have originated only by a direct and real Creation, essentially
and radically different from any processes now going on.
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