Botany or the Modern Study of Plants

Excerpt from Botany or the Modern Study of Plants
In our daily life we have no difficulty in distinguishing plants from animals, and we are also seldom in doubt as to the difference between a life-containing and an inorganic thing. It is true, of course, that at the extreme limits of the series, among the very simplest forms, it is sometimes difficult to separate plants and animals; but in most cases there can be no doubt as to which of the two great classes any thing or any creature belongs.
All the life in the world is embraced in one or other of the two great classes of Plants and Animals. Outwardly they appear so different from each other, but, as we shall see, they have a wonderful unity in the fundamentals of their structure. The science of the study of life is called Biology, but in these days, when so much detail has been accumulated and stored in books, it is no longer possible for one mind to grasp the whole subject. It has been divided into the two natural divisions of Botany, the study of the plants, and Zoology, the study of animals.
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