174 A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 



inhabitants of the world should have been 

 due to secondary causes like those determin- 

 ing the birth and death of the individual." l 



Others, who believe that they also study 

 Nature with a single eye to truth, arrive at 

 a very different conclusion. In their opinion 

 the phenomena of organic evolution, the 

 homology throughout Nature, the law and 

 order that everywhere prevail, and the 

 adaptation of organisms to the conditions 

 under which they were to live, all but con- 

 clusively demonstrate that the diversified 

 forms of life that successively appeared on 

 our globe, instead of being the fortuitous 

 outcome of secondary causes, were succes- 

 sively called into existence on a preconceived 

 plan, and continue to be reproduced and sus- 

 tained by Infinite Intelligence and Almighty 

 Power. 



1 Origin of Species, Ed. vi., p. 428. 



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