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properties and potentialities, spontaneously and au- 

 tomatically, without the aid of any extraneous, psy- 

 chic or creative force, and that those of a woman pro- 

 duce ova in the same manner. He maintains that a 

 spermatozoon and an ovum unite and fuse into a 

 germ-cell (fertilized ovum) and that this cell (germ) 

 then becomes, automatically, a living being; that it 

 develops and grows spontaneously and automatically, 

 to be a man or a woman, without the aid or guidance 

 of any extraneous psychic or creative force, whatever. 



As a fact the fertilized ovum does not develop into 

 a man or woman at all, but a vast number of daughter- 

 cells are produced from it, which are metamorphosed 

 and molded by the Creator into a man or woman- 

 The evolutionist holds that the fertilized ovum inher- 

 its all its properties and potentialities from its par- 

 ents. In other words, he contends that the germ-cell 

 develops and grows as it does because its father and 

 mother developed and grew in the same manner. Is 

 there any apparent reason why the germ-cell should 

 develop and grow at all ? Why should it develop and 

 grow, spontaneously and automatically, as its father 

 and mother grew? The germ-cell is a new combina- 

 tion of the atoms of which it is composed ; the embryo 

 is built up of new materials ; wholly different from 

 thrse which compose the bodies of its parents ; and by 

 new forces and motions, altogether different from 

 those which built up the bodies of its parents. How 

 could the mode, in which the bodies of the father and 

 mother developed and grew, possibly affect the de- 

 velopment and growth of the child? 



The fact that each normal body develops and 



