The Theosophist Monthly Journal devoted to Oriental Philosophy Art Literature and Occultism November 1884

of conceiving the co-existence of the infinite and the finite and the cognate impossibility of conceiving a first commencement of phenomena or the absolute giving birth to the relative. [...] The craving offshoot of a window plant the twisted leaves of an indoor flower are sufficient evidence of the resistless power of light and the proof of its effect on man are as numerous as those of its action on plants ; the mode only of that action is the mystery and yet if this can be even partially explained enough may be attained to show why those in whom a portion of the rays of the gla [...] Surely then if any one of the nerve-endings of the skin indiscriminately can be specialised for the recognition of light whether at the margin of the swimming disk in the jelly-fish at the point of the ray in the star-fish on the fringe of the mantle in the shell-fish or on the back in some species of snail it must be conceded that in the first instance all surface nerves must feel the if [...] From this the most rudimentary through the pigmen al bodies round the margin of the swimming disk of mdusw and the pigmented ocelli at the tips of the rays in star-fish to the lowest vermes in which Professor. [...] Nature has made the most of her two factors by eposing the selected tissue to the continued impinging upon it of the waves of light ; while at the same time securing not only the transmission through it of the waves of heat butt their constant accumulation behind it thereby causing the molecular constituents of the protoplasm to be thrown into the highest rates of vibrtion possibly obtain