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idea of design, and, as an article of faith. something sub- 
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evolutionists to explain variation, and fully realizing that 
natural selection only takes advantage of such variation, I 
yet believe that there is one influence at work—none the less 
are correspondingly great and exceptional. As a cause of 
variation this was rejected by Darwin, and the influence 1s 
usually denied by medical men on physiological grounds ; 
ut we are yet profoundly ignorant of some of the most im- 
portant functions of both mind and body, and if the fact of 
such influence can once be established, its bearing on babe 
mod- 
where mind is most developed. Who can safely assert that 
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©onnection because I had occasion to suggest it to Dr. Gray, 
at Manchester, as a working hypothesis to explain t rer 
design as affecting animals, and because I was please 
nd him by no means unfavorably inclined to the idea. 
none; 
And tempered seemed his being and his powers 
By all the sweetness of his loved flowers, 
