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procreated germs are so like each other 

 in the earliest stages, that neither the 

 microscopist, nor the chemist, could tell 

 whether any germ is to develop into 

 any of the lowest animals or into a man. 

 Yet the line of growth, in each, is pre- 

 determined, and the adult form is as 

 certain and as definite as if the completed 

 animal had been a separate creation from 

 the inorganic elements of Nature. If, 

 therefore, the mechanical evolutionists 

 appeal to the processes of ordinary 

 generation, they must take all the con- 

 sequences of that appeal. They must 

 not reject or gloss over a feature of it 

 which is most fundamental and conspicu- 

 ous, namely, the internal directing agency 

 or force, which always pursues a definite 

 line of growth, so that all the demands 

 of the completed structure must have 

 been present from the beginning, and 

 must have been always ready to appear 



