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between them ; it exhibits thought, proving directly how 

 completely the Creative Mind is independent of the influ- 

 ence of a material world. 



4th. The unity of plan in otherwise highly diversified 

 types of animals, exhibits thought ; it exhibits more 

 immediately premeditation, for no plan could embrace 

 such a diversity of beings, called into existence at such 

 long intervals of time, unless it had been framed in the 

 beginnino; with immediate reference to the end. 



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5th. The correspondence, now generally known as 

 special homologies, in the details of structure in animals 

 otherwise entirely disconnected, down to the most minute 

 peculiarities, exhibits thought, and more immediately the 

 power of expressing a general proposition in an indefinite 

 number of ways, equally complete in themselves, though 

 differing in all their details. 



6'th. The various degrees and different kinds of relation- 

 ship among animals which can have no genealogical 

 connection, exhibit thought, the power of combining 

 different categories into a permanent, harmonious whole, 

 even though the material basis of this harmony be ever 

 changing. 



7th. The simultaneous existence, in the earliest 

 geological periods in which animals existed at all, of 

 representatives of all the great types of the animal king- 

 dom, exhibits most especially thought, considerate thought, 

 combining power, premeditation, prescience, omniscience. 



8th. The gradation, based upon complications of struc- 

 ture, which may be traced among animals built upon the 

 same plan, exhibits thought, and especially the power of 

 harmoniously distributing unequal gifts. 



9th. The distribution of some types over the most ex- 

 tensive range of the surface of the globe, while others are 



