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generations in a good garden soil, well tended, produce 

 the plant as it now is. Why? Because in nature the 

 parsnip has certain enemies and elements to struggle with 

 which require that particular kind of tough condition of 

 the plant in order to exist, and it is also precisely the 

 same with animals and man. The wiry, tough wild boar 

 must remain so in his natural habitat in order to be able 

 to exist. 



We see the same struggle for existence everywhere. 

 It is the same among the single cells on sea and land as 

 it is among plants and animals, and as it is among men 

 in business, and among nations for a national existence ; 

 the same schemes are invented by plants to perpetuate 

 their existence as by man, animals and nations. There is 

 a plant in Persia that puts forth a pair of hooks of mater- 

 ial strong as steel which fits over the noses of antelope, 

 deer, and camels, and kills its victims, after capture, by 

 the injection of a poison. It does this with the purpose 

 and intention that its young plants shall feed on the de- 

 caying carcass while building new plants like those from 

 which they came ; this shows an inventive genius and fore- 

 sight of the highest order. The idea that any chance vari- 

 ation could ever produce this far seeing invention to 

 effect the purpose intended, is as impossible as that an 

 automobile could be caused by chance. The cell which 

 built this plant shows that the cause of evolution is the 

 intellect of the builder and not chance variation. 



If pigs are turned out into the timber and forced to 

 protect themselves as best they can, they will slowly and 

 surely revert back to the original type because it will be 

 necessary for self protection. In order to be able to live 

 on the scant supply of food in the timber, the pig must 

 hunt and hustle all the time and sometimes fight for his 

 life. He cannot have short legs and a heavy fat body and 



