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manipulation, nor known by what subordinate 

 agency, if any, the result was produced. We could 

 have given no further explanation than that of the 

 ancient writer who tells us that God said, "Let 

 the waters swarm with swarmers." We are told 

 that when these great creative changes occurred, they 

 were witnessed by higher intelligences than man. 

 " Then the morning stars sang together, and all the 

 sons of God shouted for joy " ^ ; but even they 

 could perhaps know little more than we, though 

 they might be better able to trace the future de- 

 velopment of the wonderful plan commenced in the 

 humble Protozoa and culminating in man and im- 

 mortality. 



* Job xxxviii. 7. 



