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among animals built upon the same plan, exhibits thought, and especially the power 

 of diistributing harmoniously unequal gifts. 



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

 face of the globe, while others are limited to particular geographical areas, and the 

 various combinations of these types into zoological provinces of imequal extent, 

 exhibit thought, a close control m the distribution of the earth's surfoce among 

 its inhabitants. 



lOtli. The identity of structure of these types, notwithstanding their wide geo- 

 graphical distribution, exhibits thought, that deep thought which, the more it is 

 scrutinized, seems the less capable of being exhausted, though its meaning at the 

 surface appears at once plain and intelligible to every one. 



11th. The community of structure in certain respects of animals othenvise en- 

 tirely different, but living within the same geographical area, exhibits thought, and 

 more particularly the power of adapting most diversified types vnth peculiar struc- 

 tures to either identical or to different conditions of existence. 



12th. The connection, by series, of special structures observed in animals Avidely 

 scattered over the surflice of the globe, exliibits thought, unlimited comprehension, 

 and more directly omnipresence of mind, and also prescience, as far as such series 

 extend through a succession of geological ages. 



13th. The relation there is between the size of animals and their structure and 

 form, exhibits thought; it shows that in nature the quantitative differences are as 

 fixedly determined as the qualitative ones. 



14tli. The independence, in the size of animals, of the medivuns in which they 

 live, exhibits thought, in establishing such close connection between elements so influ- 

 ential in themselves and organized beings so little affected by the nature of these 

 elements. 



15th. The permanence of specific pecuharities under every variety of external 

 influences, during each geological period, and under the present state of things upon 

 earth, exhibits thought : it shows, also, that limitation in time is an essential element 

 of all finite beings, while eternity is an attribute of the Deity only. 



16th. The definite relations in which animals stand to the surrounding world, 

 exhibit thought; for all animals living together stand respectively, on account of 

 their very difToreuoes, in different relations to identical conditions of existence, in a 

 manner which implies a considerate adaptation of their varied organization to these 

 uniform conditions. 



17th. The relations in which individuals of the same species stand to one an- 

 other, exhibit thought, and go far to prove the existence in all living beings of an 

 immaterial, imperishable principle, similar to that which is generally conceded to man 

 only. 



