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endowed them with the power and the tendency to aggregate 

 into developing worlds, might equally as well have endowed cer- 

 tain of them with the power and the tendency to aggregate into 

 ever advancing organisms. There is no element of chance in 

 the myriad forms of crystalline and chemical substances ; then 

 why should there be in the scarcely more varied colloid forms of 

 living matter? In a world that unfolds from chaos in one steady 

 line of progress, that shows only design at every advancing stage, 

 I must logically place somewhere at its commencement the 

 almighty fiat of a Designer. 



