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tions of the same few osseous elements, surely we 

 must be the more strikingly impressed with the 

 wisdom and power of that cause, which could 

 produce so much variety, and at the same time 

 such perfect adaptations and endowments out of 

 means so simple. 



For in what have those mechanical instruments, 

 the hands of the ape, the hoofs of the horse, the 

 fins of the whale, the trowels of the mole, the 

 wings of the bat, so variously formed to obey the 

 behests of volition in denizens of different elements 

 in what, I say, have they differed from the 

 artificial instruments which we ourselves plan with 

 foresight and calculation for analogous uses, save 

 in their greater complexity, in their perfection, 

 and in the unity and simplicity of the elements, 

 which are modified to constitute these several 

 locomotive organs? 



Everywhere in organic nature we see the 

 means not only subservient to the end, but that 

 end accomplished by the simplest means. Hence 

 we are compelled to regard the Great Cause of 

 all, not like certain philosophic ancients, as a 

 uniform and quiescent mind, as an all-pervading 

 anima mundi, but as an active and anticipating 

 intelligence." (Classification of Mammalia, p. 62.) 



The next issue opened by Mr. Darwin is one 

 also upon which I must call upon him to plead 

 guilty, and resign his theory. 



"If it could be proved that any part of the 

 structure of any one species had been formed for 

 the exclusive good of another species, it would 



