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hension how the whole product* nf tin- universe could be brought to ma- 

 turity at the same season. ..r concentrated in tin- sunn- -pot. 



Their nature may In- now infinitely modified. 



If all the animate*! subjects of the creation were frameil a* now , \- 

 i-tiiiiX of perishable matter, their durability \va- mere tnr com- 



pared with the lasting endurance of time. If resembling those where- 

 with the earth, the air, and the waters are now replete, can we presume 

 tin-in exempt from the ravages of disease, dt-eay. ami death. Therefore, 

 the whole lieim: liable to -uddeii cxt irjKition. might have left a fright- 

 ful yoid, to ! replenished only by a new creation. 



Hut now did the Supreme Intelligence de\ iso a marvellous expedient 

 to count cruet the blight, and avert desolation. Animals were empowered 

 to reproduce themselves, to restore their own similitude in the production 

 of progeny. Hy this means is generation transmitted through genera- 

 tion, and at the latest moment the images of what existed at the dale ..! 

 their . -real ion are offered to our view. 



The regularity and simplicity whereby the world i> in this manner 

 i-arried on, forms an impressive feature of the grandeur of the whole 

 design, though the miiiutio.* of .-ueh reproduction I*.- still wnip|K-d in 

 mystei \ . 



Hy the general laws goveniing the perjK-t nation of living \ 

 each is ordained to spring from two parents. Hut to tlii- there are wide 

 and extraordinary exceptions. Frequently the progeny is derived from 

 only one. whereby it is nurtured through a previous state of imperfec- 

 tion until ushered into the world. Sometimes a portion of the single 

 parent separates spontaneously aa a shapeless mass, which is slowK 

 refined into symmetrical form, with the development of all the organic 

 -tnicture required for ita exigencies, and neoewwy to preM-nt a perle. t 

 image of the parent . 



The vegetable kingdom is multiplied through the medium 

 and buds, or shoots, wherein appears a striking analogy to the |<:<><-eflMS 

 In-held in the multiplication of animals. 



:iv buds germinate from the .surface of some of the humbler 

 creatures, either dropping off at a certain stage of their progre)- 



