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they will thus arrange themselves of their own 

 power. Some one must arrange them. Who 

 arranges the tiny bricks of which the animal body 

 consists, or what arranges them ? To revert to 

 our previous example of the garden ; suppose 

 that we bring back from that which we desire to 

 copy a bag of seeds representing all the plants 

 which it contains. We have a plot of land of the 

 same size as our example ; we dig it and we dung 

 it and then we scatter our seeds perfectly hap- 

 hazard over its surface. What are the odds as 

 to their coming up in an exactly similar pattern to 

 those in the other garden. Mathematicians, I 

 suppose, could calculate the probabilities, but 

 they must be infinitesimally small. Yet in the 

 case of the animal the pattern is always observed. 



It is quite useless for any one, however eminent 

 an authority he may be, to dismiss the matter by 

 saying " It is a phenomenon of arrangement," for 

 that begs the whole question. A Martian visitor 

 taken to Westminster Abbey and told that its 

 construction was a " phenomenon of arrange- 

 ment " might be expected to turn a scornful eye 

 upon his cicerone and reply, " Any fool can see 

 that, but who arranged it ? '' 



Hence, though wild horses would not drag 

 such an admission from many, we are irresistibly 

 compelled to adopt the theory of a Creator and 

 a Maintainer also of nature and its operations 

 so-called if we are to escape from the absurdities 

 involved in any other explanation. Thus there 

 are very important and fundamental matters to 

 be deduced from the very little which we know 



