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nature for the zone they are to inhabit, and by the 

 process of moulting for the change of seasons, man, 

 made to wander over the whole earth, to change 

 his place rapidly, has no fixed provision for his 

 protection. He is left to clothe himself, and thus 

 to fit himself at any time for any place on this earth 

 of which he is the lord and ruler. 



We find our bodies then wonderfully adapted to 

 our wants, to give us a knowledge of the world and 

 minister to our pleasure. Things are fitted for their 

 . We want no chemistry and no anatomy to 

 tell us this. It would be just as apparent to a rea- 

 sonable being that the body of man is fitted lor its 

 work, adapted to the world and adapted to the 

 intelligent being that inhabits the body, though he 

 had never looked beneath the skin and knew nothing 

 of the curious chemical changes in the body, as it 

 would to the best anatomist and physiologist in the 

 world. We know that our eyes are fitted for sight, 

 our ears for hearing, our limbs for walking, our 

 tongues for speech, and our hands for cunning 

 work. If we can look upon a little child when first 

 waking to consciousness of a new world, or upon a 

 trained man in the fulness of his strength, and not 

 feel that there is a perfect adaptation of means to 

 ends to bring the person into proper relations to 

 this world in which it is to dwell, then the scalpel 

 may remain in its case, and the crucible of the 

 chemist may remain cold. They can simply multi- 

 ply proof, but they can never present any proof 

 higher in kind than we have without them. It may 



