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binations are continually brought out. In this 

 order, the lowest grades of being have certain 

 characters, above which they do not rise, but 

 propagate beings as simple as themselves. Above 

 them are others which, passing through stages 

 in their infancy equal to the adult condition of 

 those below them, acquire, when at maturity, 

 a perfection of organs peculiarly their own. Oth- 

 ers again rise above these, and their structures 

 become gradually compound ; till, at last, it 

 may be said that the simpler animals represent, 

 as in a glass, the scattered organs of the higher 

 races." 



When we read such a passage as this, 



and confess, as we must, its truth, we cannot 

 help sigliing over certain expressions in it, which 

 <lo unintentionally coincide with the very theory 

 which Professor Ilarvey denies. Is this progress 

 supposed to take place in time and space? — or in 

 the mind of a 15eing above time and space, who 

 aflcrwards • reduces to act and fact, in time and 

 space, just so much and no more of that prog- 

 ress as shall seem good to Ilim, some here, 

 iomc there; not binding Himself to begin at the 

 l()wc>t, and end with the highest, but compen- 

 sating and balancing the lower with the bi'dier 



