152 FORMATION OF SHELLS OF ANIMALS, ETC. 
form and density, unless these developing globules were 
severally acquainted with the changes of form and structure 
going on simultaneously in all globules similarly situated ? 
Whereas, if the affirmative be given to the second side of 
this question, then the rounded form of the crystalline 
lens will be due to the operation of the same physical 
forces as that of the shells of molluses and crustaceans 
before described. And so with respect to rotundity of 
contour generally, organic will agree with inorganic 
bodies; the spherical figure of both when placed under 
circumstances where their component molecules are 
affected more by the mutual attraction they have one 
for another, than by that of remote objects being alike 
dependent upon gravity ; and thus the analogy of nature, 
in regard to this fact, is complete; and the same Infinite 
power and wisdom which are displayed in the government 
of the inorganic world according to fixed laws, are also 
equally displayed in the arrangement of the material parts 
of organized beings, according to the same laws. 
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