Note 90 — AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF ANIMAL LIFE. IN THREE LECTURES, DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

“Organization, sensation, spontaneous motion, and life, exist only at the surface of the earth, and in places exposed to light. We might affirm the flame of Prometheus's torch was the expression of a philosophical truth that did not escape the ancients. Without light, nature was lifeless, inanimate, and dead. A benevolent God, by producing life, has spread organization, sensation, and thought over the surface of the earth.”—Lavoisier.