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in the muscles as described by Dr. Haujjhton, and em- 

 phasised by Mr. James Croll. 



Natural Selection in sweeping away Design was'sup- 

 posed to have swept away Determination with it ; so that 

 all animals and plants, including, of course, all their 

 internal anatomical structures, were supposed to have 

 arisen by the chance appearance of favourable variations, 

 accumulated through generations. 



As, however, Natural Selection, so far as it was supposed 

 to be concerned with the Origin of Species, has not a 

 shadow of a foundation in Nature, the Law of Direct Ad- 

 aptation to the conditions of life is substituted ; and all 

 these wonderful structures which Paley thought to have 

 been designed, are now regarded as having arisen by 

 Evolution instead ; but there is everywhere present the 

 evidence of Determination or Directivity as patent as ever. 



The human eye was undoubtedly evolved from a 

 pigment spot on the skin of some far distant creature at 

 the beginning of the series which led up to that of the 

 mammalia, which was sensitive to light ; such perhaps as 

 is found at the ends of the rays of a starfish ; so that 

 while there is hardly anything in these to be called 

 structure, in the human eye we attain to all the elements 

 of a self-acting photographic camera ! 



Paley observes that if a man discovered the use of a 

 watch picked up on a heath, not knowing what it was, 

 it would raise his admiration still more if he found that 

 the watch could reproduce itself by young ones, as a living 

 organism does. 



We may add here, that if he found that, by placing 

 young watches in various localities some would eventually 

 become " time-pieces," " eight-day clocks," " alarums," 

 "chronometers," etc., his admiration of the power of the 

 original watchmaker would be still more enhanced. 



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