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organic ends, as well as in the actual initiation and intro- 

 duction of the primeval living form, the nursing of its 

 infant existence, and the spread of its progeny throughout 

 the organic world. 



Creation, as it is portrayed in Holy Writ, is nothing 

 else than marvellous in the closeness of its details to the 

 sequence of the evolutionary steps that constitute its 

 so-called profane or lay scientific history in the unstrained 

 truth of its thrilling story, in the terseness of its phrase- 

 ology, in its great fulness of meaning and unfathomable 

 profundity of teaching ; besides, it verily constitutes the 

 highest teaching of the highest level of present-day science, 

 which indeed seems to be but a re-telling of its story in a 

 belated manner, though with perhaps greater fulness yet 

 diminished effulgence. 



