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another. Darwin forgets that inorganic nature, in which 
there can be no thought of a genetic connection of forms,” 
that one form of crystal, for instance, arose out of an- 
other, “exhibits the same regular plan, as the organic 
world (of plants and animals), and that, to cite only one 
example, there is as much a natural system of minerals 
as of plants and animals.” We can go a step farther and 
say that there is system and orderly design even in the 
position and movements of the stars,—which certainly 
have not been evolved one from the other. 
More marvellous still, we are permitted to believe that 
there is an identity of plan connecting the arrangement 
of atoms in a molecule and the position of the stars and 
planets. Dr. Charles Young, Professor of Astronomy 
in Princeton College, says in his larger text-book upon 
his special theme that “our planetary system (the sun and 
planets) is not a mere accidental aggregation of bodies,” 
that “there are a multitude of relations actually observed 
which are wholly independent of gravitation.” In other 
words, in the position and motions of the planets there 
are evidences of design which cannot be accounted for 
by natural law. ‘We shall point out an instance of such 
arrangement,—the progressive distance of the planets 
from the sun, as first discovered by Titius of Wittenberg, 
and later (in 1772) brought to the attention of the scien- 
tific world, by Johann Bode, the celebrated German as- 
tronomer. It is exhibited by writing a line of nine 4’s 
and then placing regularly increasing numbers under the 
several 4’s, beginning with the second. Thus 3, 6, 12, 
24, 48, 96, 192, and 384, each increased by 4, will give the 
resultant series, 4, 7, 10, 16, 28, 52, 100, 196, 388. These 
numbers divided by Io are approximately the true dist- 
ance of the planets from the sun in terms of the radius 
of the earth’s orbit, with the exception of Neptune. 
Hence there is, in the arrangmeent of the planets, as or- 
