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essary to make each part of the watch and to fit and 

 group them together when completed. He must know 

 and remember every part of it ; remember the material 

 of which it is made; remember its form and size; 

 compare each piece with the pattern ; remember the 

 time in which he is to do the work. He must have the 

 will-power to begin and continue the work until it is 

 done, doing such part of it each day as to complete it 

 on or about the day fixed. 



But the forces and motions, which build up the 

 body of the embryo, work in the dark without brain 

 or sense-organs. To put the watchmaker on the same 

 basis with the Creator, we will have to suppose that the 

 watchmaker is blind and has no sense of touch. Would 

 it be possible for him to make a watch under these 

 conditions ? 



The mother's food is taken into her mouth, 

 chewed and mixed with saliva and passes into her 

 stomach. Here it is mixed with gastric juice and 

 converted into chyme. It then passes into the small 

 intestine (duodenum) where it is mixed with pancre- 

 atic secretion, bile and "the secretion of the glands 

 Brunner and the Crypts of Lieberkiihn' and thus 

 converted into chyle. Most of the "nutritive consti- 

 tuents' 1 of the chyle pass through the epithelium of 

 the small intestines into the subjacent blood and 

 lymphatic vessels and are carried off. Those passing 

 into the blood capillaries are taken by the portal vein 

 to the liver; while those entering the lacteals are car- 

 ried into the left jugular vein by the thoracic duct. 

 (Martin, Human Body, pp. 361-377.) 



This is a very brief outline of the processes, by 



