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power came simultaneously with the change 

 in physical organization, then it was all that 

 we can ever know or understand of a new 

 creation. There is no ground whatever for 

 supposing that ordinary generation has been 

 the agency employed, seeing that no effects 

 similar in kind are ever produced by that 

 agency, so far as is known to us. The theory 

 of Transmutation in all its forms, even as 

 applied to the lower animals, is exposed to 

 many difficulties greater than those which it 

 professes to remove. But as applied to Man, 

 those difficulties are accumulated to an in- 

 calculable degree. Most of them, too, are 

 altogether of a special kind, because the 

 divergence which ordinary generation is sup- 

 posed to have produced in the case of Man is 



