As the glass reflects the face, so the creation reflects the qualities
of Him who made it. Among other attributes, It speaks of His unity.
Notwithstanding the wide diversity that presents itself to our
view in the countless varieties of living beings, it yet is
true that all vegetable and animal tissues without exception,
from that of the brightly colored lichen on the rock, to that
of the painter who admires or of the botanist who dissects
it, are essentially one in composition and in structure. The
microscopic fungi clustering by millions within the body of a
single fly, the giant pine of California towering to the height
of a cathedral-spire, the Indian fig-tree covering acres with
its profound shadow, animalcules minute enough to dance in
myriads on the point of a needle, and the huge leviathan of the
deep, the flower that a girl wears in her hair, and the blood
that courses through her veins, are, each and all, smaller or
larger multiples or aggregates of one and the same structural
unit, and all therefore ultimately resolvable into the same
identical elements. That unit is a corpuscle composed of oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon. Hydrogen, with oxygen, forms
water; carbon, with oxygen, carbonic acid; and hydrogen, with
nitrogen, ammonia. These three compounds--water, carbonic acid,
and ammonia--in like manner, when combined form protoplasm.
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=Unity of Christendom=--See CHURCH UNION.
=Unity of Knowledge=--See KNOWLEDGE, UNITY OF.