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one system exhibits thought, tlie most comprehensive thought, in 

 limits transcending the highest wonted powers of man. 



2d. The simukaneous existence of the most diversified types under 

 identical circumstances exhibits thought, the ability to adapt a 

 great variety of structures to the most uniform conditions. 



3d. The repetition of similar types, under the most diversified cir- 

 cumstances, shows an immaterial connection between them; it ex- 

 hiliits thought, proving directly how completely the Creative Mind 

 is independent of the influence of a material world. 



4th. The unity of plan in otherwise highly diversified types of 

 animals exhibits thought; it exhibits more immediately premedita- 

 tion, 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 beofinninsr with immediate reference to the end. 



5th. The correspondence, now generally known as special homolo- 

 gies, in the details of structure in animals otherwise entirely dis- 

 connected, down to the most minute peculiarities, exhibits thought, 

 and more immediately the power of expressing a general proposi- 

 tion in an indefinite number of ways, equally complete in them- 

 selves, though differing in all their details. 



6th. The variotis degrees and different kinds of relationship among 

 animals which can have no genealogical connection, exhibit thought, 

 the power of combining different categories into a permanent, har- 

 monious 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 kingdom exhibits most especially thought, con- 

 siderate thought, combining power, premeditation, prescience, om- 

 niscience. 



8th. The gradation based upon complications of structure, which 

 may be traced among animals built upon the same plan, exhibits 

 thought, and especially the power of distributing harmoniously un- 

 equal gifts. 



9th. The distribution of some types over the most extensive range 

 of the surface of the globe, while others are limited to particular 

 geographical areas, and the various combinations of these types into 



