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would it diminish that wonder, but rather 

 enhance it to an infinite degree, that Organ- 

 isms should be gifted with the still more 

 wonderful power of developing Forms of Life 

 other and higher than their own. So far, 

 therefore, as belief in a Personal Creator is 

 concerned, the difficulties in the way of 

 accepting this hypothesis are not theological. 

 The difficulties are scientific. The first funda- 

 mental difficulty is simply this, — that all the 

 theories of Development ascribe to known 

 causes unknown effects — unknown as regards 

 the times in which we now live, and unknown 

 so far as has hitherto been ascertained 

 in all the past times of which there is any 

 record. It is true that this record — the geo- 

 logical record — is imperfect. But, as Sir 



