44 A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 



race, arose by a special intervention that 

 modified a Specific life - force already in 

 existence. 



Speculative. 



Conception is the incarnation of life, and 

 we may surmise that the modification of 

 an existing Specific life-force to produce a 

 new type was effected at conception by 

 the same Power that first incarnated life. 



It may be that, in the higher organisms, 

 the fecundated ovum of an existing type 

 was in some unknown manner ag-ain fecun- 



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dated with a new force, and the old and 

 new forces thus incorporated evolved the 

 new type. Further, if the womb of the 

 antecessor was utilised to foster the embryo, 

 a new race was evolved by a single direct 

 intervention of the same Power that called 

 the first simple forms of life into existence. 

 Was not the mammal evolved from the fish 

 through the amphibia ? 



The first evidence of a new life is the 

 growth of the germ -plasm. We cannot 

 penetrate deeper in our search for the 

 origin of life, but yet the question will 

 suggest itself, Whence comes the inexhaust- 

 ible supply of force to animate the count- 



