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the bricks, spontaneously, metamorphosed themselves 

 into marble slabs for window-sills, door-sills, hearth- 

 stones, etc. ; that other bricks were converted into 

 oaken mantels, with mirrors, etc. ; that others were 

 converted into slabs of slate and assumed the proper 

 form, size and positions to form a slate roof! 



If any such thing should ever happen it would 

 be justly considered a great miracle. 



But the development and growth of the embryo 

 are far more mysterious and wonderful than the build- 

 ing of a house in this manner would be; for the em- 

 bryo is a live miniature model of a man or woman 

 the work of a supernatural creative force Almighty 

 God. 



Huxley says, in substance, that the germ-cell has 

 ' * within itself the tendency to assume a definite living 

 form.' He also says "that the great characteristic 

 of the germ is, not so much what is, but what it may, 

 under suitable conditions, become." (Encyc. Brit. 

 (9 ed.) 8, p. 746.) 



The common belief of mankind, in general, is that 

 the germ-cell, spontaneously and automatically, devel- 

 ops and grows to be a man or woman, without the aid 

 of any extraneous psychic or creative force. 



But it is clear that the germ-cell divides into 

 two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two and sixty-four 

 daughter-cells ; and so on to infinity. It follows that 

 the germ-cell is annihilated within a few hours after 

 it is formed ; and that its identity, as the germ-cell is 

 wholly lost in the myriads of daughter-cells which 

 arise from it, and go to build up the embryo body; 



