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what they do. They understand not the processes they 

 carry on. They are unconscious of the brilliancy of the 

 work they perform. They possess no knowledge, practise 

 no foresight, exercise neither discrimination nor imagina- 

 tion. They select not, measure not, shape not, of their 

 own mind. Where, then, is the wisdom to be found, 

 and where is the place of understanding? Where, but 

 in an eternal mind to whom belongeth knowledge and 

 whose understanding is infinite. 



(2) Consider the ovules. In whatever way these ovules 

 are formed, what can we say of them but that they are 

 works of infinite art? They are gems of construction. 

 They are matchless marvels of likeness and differentiation. 

 They are triumphs of concentration. They are, if possible, 

 greater wonders than the bodies they construct. The 

 potencies and arrangements necessary to the building up 

 of each living creature are laid up in them in innumer- 

 able minutest points. In the case of the simplest organi- 

 sations the ovules are doubtless proportionally simple. 

 As the organisations increase in complexity, the ovules, 

 which build them, must be increasingly complex, and 

 have a greater wealth of order and potency stored in 

 them. Were it possible to arrange in a line all the 

 ovules of the animal world, beginning with the simplest 

 and going on to the most complex, they would form a 

 long and incomparable series. There are millions of 

 them, and every individual is seen in the light of the 

 work it performs to be a transcendent wonder. The mind 

 revels in considering and imagining the wealth and 

 perfection of forms and the balancings of forces in them. 

 The intellect exults as it recognises order so dazzling. 

 To its eye ovules are, as we have said, kings. They sit 

 on thrones. A halo of royal potency is on them. The 

 splendour of the greatest chef-d'ceuvres, of the most 



