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Consciousness and Physics are incommensurable. 

 " Thought BEGAN to be." How ? 

 " Intelligence, self-conscious, emerged" 

 WHENCE ? 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE THREE BARRIERS. 



Mr. Darwin on 



The adaptation of organs, 

 The transmutation of animals, 

 The Origin of Instinct, 

 The ant, and the honey-bee. 

 His Theory of Neuters : 



Fertile parents transmit, 



through fertile progeny, 

 A tendency to produce sterility, 



incapable of further production. 

 His oversight of 



The evidence of Design. 

 His Remarkable Omissions. 

 His ingenious substitution of 



The "conceivable " for the actual. 

 His habitual avoidance of 



The profounder marvels of Nature, and 

 Their only true solvent 



The ordination of God. 

 The Three Barriers of 



Comparative Anatomy. 

 I. THE BACKBONE : 



The basis of Strength. 

 An impassable Barrier 

 Until it can be shewn 



How a butterfly could become a bird, 

 Or a snail, a serpent, 

 Or a star-fish acquire the skeleton of 

 a salmon or a shark. 



