148 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 



for the care and feeding of the young. But this is to 

 be the subject of a separate chapter. 



As long as we thought of each sort of animal as be- 

 ing a separate species shaped in the beginning by the 

 hands of the Creator, each of these devices seemed to 

 us a new manifestation of the Divine Providence, 

 whose fertile planning had conceived so many methods 

 of providing for his children. Unconsciously we 

 thought of God acting as man acted. Each animal 

 seemed a purely separate invention purposely designed 

 for an especial place. Now we understand the plan 

 in creation better, and see that each animal has come 

 from another not quite like itself, some distance 

 back, and this from still another. Our admiration 

 for these devices as they arise through evolution is 

 no less, but takes on another form. 



