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they there ? is it wrong to say, It is in order 

 that when the eggs are mature and fertihzecl, 

 new individuals of the same form should be 

 produced." 



It is further to be considered that there are 

 innumerable cases of contrivance, or evidence 

 of design in nature, to which the principle of 

 natural selection, or the purposeless changes 

 effected by unconscious force, cannot apply ; as 

 for example, the distinction of sex, with all 

 that is therein involved. But passing by such 

 cases, it may be asked, what would it avail to 

 get rid of design in the vegetable and animal 

 kingdom, while the whole universe is full of 

 it ? That this ordered Cosmos is not from ne- 

 cessity or chance, is almost a self-evident fact. 

 Not one man in a million of those who ever 

 heard of God, either does doubt or can doubt 

 it. Besides how are the cosmical relations of 

 light, heat, electricity, to the constituent parts 

 of the universe, and especiall}^, so far as this 

 earth is concerned, to vegetable and animal 

 life, to be accounted for ? Is this all chance 

 work ? Is it by chance that light and heat 

 cause plants to carry on their wonderful oper- 

 ations, transmuting the inorganic into the or- 

 ganic, dead matter into living and life sustain- 



