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All these beings do not exist in consequence of the 

 continued agency of physical causes, but have made their 

 successive appearance upon earth by the immediate inter- 

 vention of the Creator. As proof, I may sum up my 

 argument in the following manner : 



The products of what are commonly called physical 

 agents are everywhere the same (that is, upon the whole 

 surface of the globe), and have always been the same 

 (that is, during all geological periods) ; while organized 

 beings are everywhere different and have differed in all 

 asfes. Between two such series of phenomena there can 



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be no causal or genetic connection. 



31st. The combination in time and space of all these 

 thoughtful conceptions exhibits not only thought, it shows 

 also premeditation, power, wisdom, greatness, prescience, 

 omniscience, providence. In one word, all these facts, in 

 their natural connection, proclaim aloud the One God, whom 

 man may know, adore, and love ; and Natural History 

 must, in good time, become the analysis of the thoughts of 

 the Creator of the Universe, as manifested in the animal 

 and vegetable kingdoms, as well as in the inorganic world. 



It may appear strange that I should have presented the 

 preceding disquisition under the title of an " Essay on 

 Classification." Yet it has been done deliberately. In the 

 beginning of this chapter, I have already stated that 

 Classification seems to me to rest upon too narrow a 

 foundation when it is chiefly based upon structure. Ani- 

 mals are linked together as closely by their mode of de- 

 velopment, by their relative standing in their respective 

 classes, by the order in which they have made their ap- 

 pearance upon earth, by their geographical distribution, 

 and generally by their connection with the world in which 

 they live, as by their anatomy. All these relations should, 



