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always called it a Plan, laid down from 

 its beginning, in its originating germs, 

 with a prevision of all its complexities 

 of adaptability to immense varieties of 

 use. There must have been a provision 

 for these uses in certain elements and 

 rudiments of structure, and in certain 

 inherent tendencies of growth, which 

 were to commence, from time to time, 

 the new and specially adapted structures. 

 This is the indisputable fact in every 

 case of ordinary generation, and if that 

 process has been the only method em- 

 ployed since the first few germs were 

 otherwise created, then both the cause 

 and the reason of rudimentary organs 

 in many creatures become intelligible 

 enough. 



There ' is nothing in this explanation 

 which can be rationally objected to by 

 evolutionists. Indeed, if Darwin's par- 

 ticular theory of development be at all 



