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Natural History of the United States. 205 
The arguments bearin g on this topic, which are numerous and 
ed illustrated, are recapitulated in brief on pages 182 to 
“In recapitulating the preceding statements, we may present the fol- 
lowing conclusions :— 
“1. The connection of all these known features of nature into one sys- 
tem exhibits thought, the most comprehensive thought, in limits trans- 
cending the highest wonted powers of mati. 
., % The simultaneous existence of the most diversified, types under 
identical circumstances exhibits thought, the ability to adapt a great va- 
spa of structures to the most uniform conditions. 
3. The repetition of similar types, under the most diversified circum- 
stances, shows an immaterial connection between them; it exhi its 
thought, proving directly how completely the Creative Mind is indepen- 
dent of the influence of i 
meh long intervals of time, unless it had been framed in the beginning 
with immediate reference to the end. 
ndence, now generally known as special homologies, 
ely the power of ex i iti 
pressing a general propos an inde! 
te deat 8, equally complete n themselves, nee air in all 
- The various degrees and different kinds of relationship among 
animal ki “ye 
“combinin ngdom, exhibits 
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he Ay The gradation based upon complications of st 
oe at animals built upon the same m ag 
iq > ‘2 power of distributing harmoniously unequ ts. 
dhe 9. The distribution of some Spe over the most extensive range of 
cal Uurface of the globe, while others are limited to particular geographi- 
reas, and the various combinations of these types into zodlogical 
: of unequal extent, exhibit thought, a close control in the distri- 
0 of the earth’s surface among its inhabitants. 
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