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It thus accounts for the first links in the chain of life, 
but claims that, from these, others of new and different 
kinds were produced at some subsequent time, and from 
them others, and so on down through many stages to 
the present. It holds that the law of like producing like 
was then as now the law, till time and environments were 
ready, perhaps after thousands of generations, and that 
then ‘‘some cause unknown to science,’’ an agnostic 
euphemism for a more or less direct act of the Creator, 
so changed the factors in what may be called the per- 
sonal formula of the embryos,' that they grew up into 
animals of species till then unknown. Thus, for exam- 
ple, ‘‘some cause unknown to science’’ so changed the 
embryo in an Orohippus, that it was born a Mesohippus ; 
and, after many thousand generations of the new species, 
like begetting like for all that time, the ‘‘ cause unknown 
to science’’ sochanged the embryo a second time that 
from the Mesohippus was borna Miohippus,asif now froma 
panther a lion should be born, and thus the process went 
on. 
The first of these theories, a creation de novo for 
each new species, is as unlike the course of Christ in His 
miracles as possible. He employed what was already in 
existence and nearest to his purpose, and put forth the 
least possible amount of divine, or extra-natural, power 
that would suffice to adapt the same to his design. The 
production of new species by changes in preceding forms 
nearest related, appears to be in perfect harmony with 
His method while on earth as Son of Man. 
Such derivation of new species from older species is 
the essence of evolution, and this, whether the evolution 
_ was by imperceptible degrees as taught by Mr. Darwin, 
or at once, per saléwm, a bound, as it were, at one birth, 
or at most, in a few successive births. from the old to the 
1 ‘‘The transition from type to type was done during fostal life.” 
Cope, Origin of the Fittest, page 276. 
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