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have parents, how, then, did the first 

 parents come into existence?" he asks. 

 "When all outer conditions were favor- 

 able, might they not have appeared 

 spontaneously, accidentally or neces- 

 sarily? Or must the first organisms 

 have been created through the inter- 

 vention of some higher power?" Btich- 

 ner concedes that this question is ex- 

 tremely complicated, and at first glanc(^ 

 may appear unsolvable without the as- 

 sumption of some such higher being 

 who of his own will created the first 

 organisms as it pleased him and en- 

 dowed them with the faculty of propa- 

 gation. "Orthodox scientists point with 

 satisfaction also to this state of af- 

 fairs," says Biichner, "and they remind 

 us at the same time of the artful and 

 complicated structure of the world, 

 and warmed by their conviction they 

 see therein the wise arrangements of 

 a higher, personal creator, who built 

 the world according to his personal in- 

 tentions." 



We might, according to Biichner, 



