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mother has any voluntary power, nor any control over 

 the development and growth of the embryo. 



Does the embryo develop and grow by accident or 

 chance ? Surely not ; for each embryo develops and 

 grows precisely as every other does, in every age and 

 country, thus showing that the same ubiquitous cre- 

 ative force makes all of them. 



"We must not assume any original creation, nor 

 repeated creations,' says Haeckel, "to explain this, 

 but a natural, continuous and necessary evolution.' 

 (Evolution of Man, p. 26.) He argues that there is no 

 personal God. 



Writing in the Encyclopedia Britannica (vol. 

 8, p. 746, 9 ed.) Professor Huxley says: 



"No exception is, at this time, known to the gen- 

 eral law, established upon an immense multitude of 

 direct observations, that every living thing is evolved 

 from a particle of matter, in which no trace of the 

 distinctive characters of the adult form of that living 



thing is discernible. This particle is termed a germ.' 



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"The definition of a germ as 'matter potentially 

 alive, and having, within itself, the tendency to as- 

 sume a definite living form," appears to meet all the 

 requirements of modern science 



And the qualification of 'potential' has the advantage 

 of reminding us that the great characteristic of the 

 germ is not so much what it is, but what it may, under 



suitable conditions, 'become.' 

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"In all cases, the process of evolution consists in 

 a succession of changes of the form, structure and 



