128 EVIDENCE OF DESIGN. 
ions which are made to ensure the fertilization of plants 
that the dean of Amercan botanists, Professor Asa Gray, 
exclaims: “If these structures and their operations do 
not argue intention, what stronger evidence of intention 
in nature can there possibly be? ‘If they do, such evi- 
dences are countless, and almost every blossom brings 
distinct testimony to the existence and providence of a 
Designer and Ordainer, without whom, we may well 
believe, not merely a sparrow, not even a grain of pollen, 
may fall.” (On this entire subject read Selina Gaye’s 
“The Great World's Farm,” published by the MacMillan 
Co., New York.) 
We can only lightly touch on the wonders of design in 
the structure and functions of animals. Here is a feather, 
any feather, say, the feather of an eagle. We quote the 
following on “One of Nature’s Wonders—the Feather” 
from an article in a popular magazine: 
“To most people a feather is just a feather, either 
pretty or plain according to how the coloring strikes their 
individual fancy. Yet when a feather is examined criti- 
cally, it becomes a wonder and yet more wonderful—it is 
amazing when its details are understood. Never was 
there a thing better planned and builded for the uses 
intended. 
“Take, for instance, a plain feather—say the tail 
feather of an eagle. The long quill is made of feather- 
bone, that wonderfully light, yet strong material that 
forms the rigid part of all feathers, so tough that it is 
almost impossible to break it, yet so flexible it will bend 
into a circle and then spring back like a bit of whalebone! 
Nothing that man has ever been able to make can equal it. 
“There is no blood, no nerves, no circulation and ap- 
parently no life in a full grown feather, yet it does not 
decompose ; indeed, it is one of the hardest things in the 
world to destroy by any process of decomposition. It 
