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in each successive stage of our planet? This last 

 is what the Professor really means, we doubt not: 

 but then, would that he had said boldly, that 

 "God," and not "Nature," is the agent. So 

 would he have raised at once the whole matter 

 from the ground of destiny to that of will, from the 

 material and logical ground to the moral and spir- 

 itual, from time and space into ever-present eter- 

 nity. To us it seems (to sum up, in a few words, 

 what we have tried to say) that such development 

 and progress as have as yet been actually discov- 

 ered in nature, have been proved, especially by 

 Professor Sedgwick and Mr. Hugh Miller, to bear 

 every trace of having been produced by succes- 

 sive acts of thought and will in some personal 

 mind ; which, however boundlessly rich and pow- 

 erful, is still the Archetype of the human mind; 

 and therefore (for to this we boldly confess we 

 have been all along tending) probably capable, 

 without violence to its properties, of becoming, 

 like the human mind, incarnate. 



This progress, then, in the Divine works, 

 though tending ever to perfection in the very 

 highest sense, need not be always forward and 

 upward, according to the laws of comparative 

 anatomy. It is possible, therefore, on the one 



