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54 Views on the Nature of Organic Structure. 
or cosmical phase. e can conceive a planet with platinum, 
gold, and silica continents, with a mercurial atmosphere, with 
fractory than ours, and yet with temperature conditions such that 
its aggregates of inorganic matter should be much the same as 
we now see. Moreover, we can conceive the existence there of 
vital organic forms, composed of elements wholly different from 
those entering organic bodies here, but whose functions should 
the power of giving material form or expression to these com 
ted results, nothing more would be necessary for placing any col | 
ceivable organic type in its proper home, or in forming for any 
home its proper organic inhabitant. Man’s intellect quite suffices 
to conceive how the Divine creative mind might infinitely vary or 
ganic forms in simple adaptation to their dissimilar homes through- 
out this wide universe. The historic order, in forming for @ 
single way to comprehend its structure and mode of agency, i 
ied and 
expressed in its forms and composition. Its one object is to form 
distinct images on the retina, and all its parts are composed with 
who sees no intellectual designing in the eye, the ear, the nerves 
rganic frame. So far from its be 
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