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exception of the first, or the few first, of 

 the whole series, then it would follow 

 that the amount and the definiteness of 

 the prevision involved in the first germs 

 must have been all the more wonderful, 

 and the more completely answering to 

 all that can be intelligible as creation. 



There is surely something suspicious 

 improbable at variance with all the 

 analogies of Nature in the doctrine 

 which the mechanical evolutionists would 

 force upon us that the life - giving 

 energy, by whatever name we may call 

 it, which started organic life upon its 

 way in the form of some four or five 

 primordial germs has been doing 

 nothing ever since. No doubt it mag- 

 nifies the richness and fertility of the 

 original operation seeing as we do the 

 almost infinite varieties which it included 

 in its predetermined lines of change. 

 But if this has been the course of creation, 



