HUMAN EYE A SPECIAL CREATION, ETC. 125 



Each human eye is a new combination of the 

 atoms and cells of which it is composed. No atom, 

 in it, was ever a part of an eye of either parent. The 

 atoms and cells, of which it is made, are grouped into 

 new chemical combinations ; and these are mechanically 

 arranged in such a manner as to construct the human 

 eye for the first and last time. The forces and mo- 

 tions, which build up each eye are peculiar to it. 

 The work done in making the eyes of the parents, has 

 nothing to do with the making of the eyes of the child ; 

 for the atoms and cells which are employed in con- 

 structing the child's eyes must be assembled and 

 grouped into the necessary chemical combinations and 

 mechanical arrangements as if the father and mother 

 had no eyes. In other words, each eye must be made 

 anew, without regard to the eyes of the father and 

 mother or any other person. If a man nrcake a million 

 bricks, it requires the same work to make the last 

 one that it did to make the first cn->; so it' a hundred 

 million silver dollars are coined at a mint it requires, 

 identically, the same work to coin each of them that it 

 did to make every other ; and so of the eyes. 



While discussing "organs of extreme perfection,' 

 and referring to the imaginary evolution of the hu- 

 man eye, in his Origin of Species (vol. 1, p. 228), Dar- 

 win says : 



"Let this process go on for millions of years, and 

 during each year on millions of individuals of many 

 kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical 

 instrument might be thus formed, as superior to one of 

 glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man ?' 



In brief, Darwin's theory is that the eyes of each 



