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lichen inserts its delicate rootlets in the thin crust of soil.’’ Having 
given foothold to the flora and fauna in ever so humble or crude manner, 
evolution will see to it that all things follow in their own proper order. 
If it be asked whence Life? Iask whence God? Life is' spiritual, science 
will never handle it. We cannot say, here lo! or lo! there. Wherever God 
is there is life, a universal principle, and wherever conditions can be made 
to serve a given end, corresponding forms are evolved, or formed, to meet 
nature’s requirements. 
