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the Deity to make the eyes of an innumerable 

 number of fish on exactly the same ideal type, 

 and then to make the eye of the octopus so 

 exactly like these other eyes in superficial 

 appearance as to deceive so accomplished a 

 naturalist as Mr. Mivart, and yet to take scru- 

 pulous care that in no one ideal particular 

 should this solitary eye resemble all the host 

 of other eyes. However, adopting for the sake 

 of argument this gigantic assumption, let us 

 suppose that God laid down these arbitrary rules 

 for His own guidance in creation, and let us 

 see to what it leads. If, as is assumed, the 

 Deity formed a certain number of ideal types, 

 and determined that on no account should He 

 allow any part of one type to appear in any 

 part of another, surely we should expect that 

 within the limits of the same type the same 

 typical structures should always be present. 

 Thus, remember what desperate efforts, so to 



