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move towards each other?' How could either know 

 in what direction to go in order to reach the other? 



It is absurd to suppose that the spermatozoon 

 and ovum have any knowledge of each other, or of 

 anything else ; and the only reasonable hyportiesis is 

 that the Creator generates, guides, and controls the 

 forces which bring them together and fuse them into 

 the germ-cell. 



Sec. 14. Ovum 



The word ovum is defined as: "An egg in a 

 broad biological sense; and the proper product of an 

 ovary ; the female germ or seed, which, when fertilized 

 by the male sperm, is capable of developing into 

 an individual like the parents. * * * * An ovum 

 consists of a quantity of protoplasm or cell-substance 

 called the vitellus or yolk inclosed in a cell-wall or 

 vitelline membrane, and provided with a nucleus and 

 nucleolus." (Cent. Die. 5, p. 4212.) 



"The ovum (egg) is extremely small,' says 

 Haeckel, "being a tiny round vesicle about 1/1 20th of 

 an inch in diameter; it can be seen under favorable 

 circumstances with the naked eye as a tiny particle, 

 but is otherwise quite invisible. This particle is 

 formed in the ovary inside a much larger globule, 

 which takes the name of the Graafian follicle, from 

 its discoverer, Graaf, and [which] had been previously 

 regarded as the true ovum.' (Evolution of Man, 

 chap. 3, pp. 16-17.) 



"Man is developed,' says Darwin, "from an 



