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side at the same time, all at once, the muscles being 

 attached to the bones, and the nerves, arteries and 

 veins, ramifying through the muscles, bones, etc. Not 

 only so, but the atoms and cells, which form the bones, 

 muscles, nerves, arteries, veins, etc., are assembled, 

 grouped and specialized at the exact points, at which 

 these tissues are needed to build up the embryo body. 

 What force or agency does this miraculous work? 

 Surely, it is not the father, nor the mother. It is not 

 done by accident nor by chance, for the same things 

 happen in the development and growth of every nor- 

 mal embryo body in every age and country the world 

 over. All this wonderful work is done in every embryo 

 body by the same psychic and creative force, whose 

 work is uniform, continuous and everlasting. 



The evolutionist says the development ani growth 

 of an embryo results from "heredity;' 1 that the child 

 develops and grows as it does because its father and 

 mother and all their ancestors, for thousands of gen- 

 erations developed and grew in the same manner; 

 and that the embryo develops and grows by * * a natural 

 continuous and necessary evolution.' (Haeckel, Ev. 

 Man, p. 26.) 



This is absurd, for the cells which build up the 

 embryo, are new combinations of the atoms of which 

 they are composed; each embryo develops arid grows 

 anew for itself; neither the germ-cell nor any of its 

 daughter-cells has any knowledge or' tin? father, nor 

 of the mother; nor of their mode of development and 

 growth ; nor of their organs and parts ; nor has the 

 embryo any power nor control over its own develop- 

 ment and growth, nor to imitate the development and 



