342 SEASIDE DIVINITY. 



while the gills were imperfect and only gradually- 

 assuming a condition fit for their future purpose ; 

 the orifices in the egg-purse allowing the water 

 access to that temporary breathing apparatus, and 

 the fact that the apparatus itself ceases to exist 

 when it is no longer required ; these and other 

 considerations cannot fail to point out the design 

 of that Divine Intelligence to which all the con- 

 ditions that require to be provided for are known, 

 and that Divine Skill by which the details requi- 

 site to the result intended are carried out in an 

 unerring correspondence with natural laws. 



