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a new genealogical tree springs. The creationist is not 

 driven to assume that the various organic forms have 

 been caused in this way. Nor does he come into con- 

 flict with what is called the uniformity of nature. He 

 accepts as fully as the evolutionist that there is no 

 lawlessness in the operations of the Inscrutable Power ; 

 but he refuses to determine the whole law of God's 

 working by the " parts of His ways " that are dis- 

 covered or discoverable by man he refuses to attempt 

 to measure the infinite in hand-breadths. He finds in 

 Moses a precedent and example which commends itself 

 to his reason as congruous with experience a method 

 of handling the question whose most marked character- 

 istic is the recognition of variety of operation. 



The successive changes formulated in evolution are 

 divided into an incalculable series of modifications 

 extending over immeasurable cycles of duration. The 

 conception is so vast that it cannot be definitely repre- 

 sented in thought. It embraces the unimaginable 

 variety of nature in the sameness of one method of 

 mutation ; but it stretches the process back to infinity 

 in a measureless series of infinitesimal modifications. 

 We gain nothing in extent or clearness of vision by 

 adopting this standpoint. If we try to summarize 

 the whole, we may note three zones of change, the first 

 from the primal molecule to the condition in which it 

 appears in protoplasm, the second from protoplasm to 

 the cell, the third from the cell to the fully differen- 

 tiated structure. NOVP it is noteworthy that these 



