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beautiful provision made for the higher animals, 

 as mentioned above, by a law of variation ! That 

 the change, if even made in an ascending series 

 of organisms, must have been made by special 

 creation, and not by "selection." 



Going on still further in my enquiries, I 

 look at the blood itself, which flows in the 

 human veins, arid placing it under the micro- 

 scope, I find that it is composed of a vast 

 number of round flat discs, floating in a clear 

 watery fluid. Further examination shews me 

 that between the two great systems of blood- 

 vessels, the veins and the arteries, there is an 

 intermediate net-work of fine delicate tubes, each 

 about one two-hundredth part of an inch in length, 

 and only capable of allowing the passage of a 

 single blood-disc, which, according to the mea- 

 surement of Gulliver and Wharton Jones, is 

 one three thousand two hundredth of an inch 

 in diameter, and twelve thousand four hundredth 

 of an inch in thickness! What a beautiful 

 thought of the divine architect is here, exclaims 

 the student. How admirably adapted the disc 

 for its tube, and the whole applied for the 

 purposes of growth and the renewal of waste. 

 But then, says the Darwinian, other animals 

 have blood and capillaries as well. Why may 

 not this admittedly beautiful adaptation be the 

 result of successive "variations" by "natural 

 selection ?" 



My answer to this question is, that it could 

 not have been so for the following reasons: 



