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126 EVIDENCE OF DESIGN. 
design in the crystals in which elements exist when they 
pass from a liquid into a solid state; there is design in 
the leaf and flower of every plant; there is plan, design, 
in the structure and physiology of animals. We would 
add, there is an evident plan in the history of the Chosen 
Race, the Jews, as we possess it in the Old and New Testa- 
ments; there is a plan in the moral sphere, laws produc- 
ing unvaried results; there is an ordered scheme even in 
the life of the individual. But let us limit our investiga- 
tion to the domain of nature. Let us note how little 
necessity there is for assuming that by mere chance things 
have come to be what they are. 
As a rule each chemical substance has an individual 
crystal by which it can be distinguished. It is possible 
to classify the thousands of different crystals, since all 
belong to one of six classes, according as their surfaces 
are grouped symmetrically around the axes of the crystal. 
The salt crystal has one form, the topaz another, quartz 
and beryl another, borax another, and these forms are ab- 
solutely unvaried wherever these substances are found 
in nature or in the chemist’s retort. It is not here our 
intention to point out how impossible it is to assume that 
there has been an evoluton of one of these forms out of 
another. The point is that there is not chance, but or- 
derly arrangement, symmetrical shape, in’a word, most 
evident design. 
Turning to plant life, even the amateur student cannot 
fail to observe that the entire world of plants is built 
on a beautiful system which argues most powerfully not 
for accidental arrangement but for plan. The place of 
every leaf on every plant is fixed beforehand by unerring 
mathematical rule. As the stems grow on, leaf after leaf 
appears exactly in its predestined place, producing a per- 
fect symmetry ;—a symmetry which manifests itself not 
in one single monotonous pattern for all plants, but in a, 
