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highest powers that we attribute to a person their 

 number is so great as to preclude the idea of chance 

 there is, therefore, a person a personal God." 

 Take from the animal kingdom a single illustration. 

 The honey-bee, the wasp, and the hornet, build 

 geometrical six-sided cells. This form is best fitted 

 for their purpose they necessarily build them in 

 this way, either compelled to it by their organiza- 

 tion or instinct ; for our argument we care not 

 which. These three tribes go on building the same 

 way forever. Now, how came that geometrical 

 form to be selected for those three insects? By 

 whom was it done? Only one answer can be given 

 by a being capable of considering all possible 

 geometrical forms in the abstract, and of selecting 

 from all possible forms one best fitted for these 

 three tribes of insects. No one will pretend that 

 these insects were from the same stock, and thus 

 account for the common form of their cells. The 

 materials are varied. By the bee the form is 

 produced in wax secreted beneath the rings of the 

 body, by the others in paper, formed of the woody 

 fiber of our fence-posts and door-sills ; but when we 



