Not if outward appearances meant anything.

Not if outward appearances meant anything.

This interpretation of the appearances is contrary to that of Horst, from whom our drawings of the oyster's development are taken.

According to him, therefore, Nature is one system of phenomena united by relations as objects of experience, one system of related appearances, one system of one eternal intelligence which reproduces itself in us.

It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise."