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in an infinitesimal worldkin. A palace of like genius 

 would make its architect immortal. A machine as com- 

 plex and perfect would invest its inventor with undying 

 fame. 



And the life in it vies with it in wonderfulness. The 

 building is an art triumph, and its inhabitant is royal in 

 interest and dignity. The machine is a gem of invention, 

 and the fire of the choicest of the world's jewels pales 

 and disappears before the glory flaming at its heart. 

 And this building Huxley and Haeckel affirm gives birth 

 to its inhabitant. The building produces as the result 

 of its matchless form its still more matchless indweller 

 occupying it. Its construction is an everlasting marvel, 

 and it is a marvel still greater in the life which it makes 

 to beat and throb within its chambers and galleries. 

 How then did this protoplasmic wonder spring into 

 being 1 To what are due combinations, measurings, so 

 many, so exquisite and fruitful ? To what but to a mind 

 of power equal to work so transcendent. The under- 

 standing must deny itself that refuses to see a Worker 

 so brilliantly revealed. 



(3) In the environment. The environment must have 

 been one, as far as can be seen, available under the 

 present conditions of the world. While the earth was 

 aglow with heat, where the ice king reigned with deadly 

 severity, life could not be generated. And as the environ- 

 ment cannot now be found, cannot now be formed, though 

 much the same circumstances must exist, its formation, 

 on the principles of Haeckel, must have been an event of 

 unparalleled good fortune, the very accident of accidents. 

 It must also have been of a very special nature, as special 

 as protoplasm itself, which now alone can accomplish the 

 work. It must have been as marvellously ordered, and 

 its properties measured and adapted for producing the 

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