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characters carried to the point where the original 

 creative ideal has been so completely transformed 

 that, but for the accident of the chain being still 

 complete, no one of nature's interpreters could possibly 

 have discovered the connexion. For, as we have seen, 

 this is not a case in which any appeal can be logically 

 made to the argument from ignorance of divine method, 

 unless some independent evidence could be adduced 

 in favour of special creation. And that no such inde- 

 pendent evidence exists, it will be the object of future 

 chapters to show. 



