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to it. But far from supporting the views of those who believe that 

 there is a causal connection between these features of the creation, 

 ■we must, on the contrary, conclude from the very fact that there are 

 so many special thoughtful adaptations for so long successive periods 

 in their distribution, that those manifold relations could only be intro- 

 duced, maintained and regulated by the continuous intervention of 

 the Supreme Intelligence, which from the beginning laid out the plan 

 for the whole, and carried it out gradually in successive times. 



What is true of plants is also true of animals ; we need only re- 

 member that it is in North America that Lepidosteus and Percopsis 

 are found ; that species of Limulus occur along the Atlantic shores ; 

 and that Trigonia and Cestracion live in New Holland along palaeozoic 

 rocks. 



