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cases of adaptation which are to be met with in organic 

 nature, as intelligent design could be. Hence, our 

 choice as between these two hypotheses must be go- 

 verned by a study of all collateral circumstances ; that 

 is to say, by a study of the evidences in favour of the 

 physical explanation. To this study, therefore, we 

 shall now address ourselves, in the course of the follow- 

 ing chapters. 



