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the baking and painting to be ignored ? Is what Mr. 

 Huxley calls the " artifice " not to be taken into account, 

 leave alone the "potter?" The strong firm rope is 

 about as exact an example of modification proper 

 modification of the weak loose hemp as can well be 

 found ; but are we to exclude from our consideration 

 the whole element of difference due to the hand and 

 brain of man ? Not far from Burn's Monument, on the 

 Calton Hill of Edinburgh, there lies a mass of stones 

 which is potentially a church, the former Trinity Col- 

 lege Church. Were this church again realized, would 

 it be fair to call it a mere modification of the previous 

 stones? Look now to the egg and the full-feathered 

 fowl. Chaucer describes to us the cock, " hight chaun- 

 teclere," that was to his " faire Pertelotte " so dear : 



"His comb was redder than the fine corall, 

 Embattled, as it were a castle -wall ; 

 His bill was black, and as the jet it shone ; 

 Like azure were his legges and his tone (toes) ; 

 His nailes whiter than the lilie flour, 

 And like the burned gold was his color." 



Would it be even as fair to call this fine fellow 

 comb, wattles, spurs, and all a modified yolk, as to 

 call the church but modified stones ? If, in the latter 

 case, an element of difference, altogether undeniable, 

 seems to have intervened, is not such intervention at 

 least quite as well marked in the former ? It requires 

 but a slight analysis to detect that all the stones in 

 question are marked and numbered ; but will any analy- 

 sis point out within the shell the various parts that only 

 need arrangement to become the fowl ? Are the men 

 that may take the stones, and, in a re-erected Trinity 

 College Church, realize anew the idea of Us architect, 



