EVIDENCE OF DESIGN. 131 
and of many others which are still inscrutable to us, is 
exhibited in this structure.” Well may Mr. Darwin say, 
“Tt is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous 
organs have been produced. We see the purpose—that 
a special apparatus should be prepared; but we have not 
the remotest notion of the means employed. Yet we 
can see so much as this, that here again, other laws, be- 
longing altogether to another department of nature— 
laws of organic growth—are made subservient to a very 
definite and very peculiar purpose.’ 
“The new-born kangaroo,” says Professor Owen, “‘is 
an inch in length, naked, blind, with very rudimental limbs 
and tail; in one which I examined the morning after 
the birth, I could discern no act of sucking; it hung, like 
a germ, from the end of the long nipple, and seemed 
unable to draw sustenance therefrom by its own efforts. 
The mother accordingly is provided with a peculiar adap- 
tation of a muscle (cremaster) to the mammary gland, 
by which she can inject the milk from the nipple into the 
mouth of the pendulous embryo. Were the larynx of the 
creature like that of the parent, the milk might, probably 
would, enter the windpipe and cause suffocation: but the 
larynx is cone-shaped, with the opening at the apex, which 
projects, as in the whaletribe, into the back aperture of the 
nostrils, where it is closely embraced by the muscles of the 
‘soft palate. The air-passage is thus completely sepa- 
rated from the fauces (mouth), and the injected milk 
passes in a divided stream, on either side the base of the 
larynx, into the oesophagus. These correlated modifi- 
cations of maternal and foetal structures, designed with 
especial reference to the peculiar conditions of both 
mother and off-spring, afford, as it seems to me, irre- 
fragable evidence of creative forsight. The parts of this 
apparatus cannot have produced one another; one part 
is in the mother, another part in the young one; without 
