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fulfilment of an obvious intention. Of the nature 

 of those Forces we know nothing ; nor is it easy 

 to conceive how they have been so co-ordinated 

 as to produce effects fitting with such exactness 

 into the conditions requisite for the preservation 

 of Organic Life. If there were any evidence that 

 by the same means new Forms of Life could be 

 developed from the old, I cannot see why there 

 should be any reluctance to admit the fact. It 

 would be different from anything that we see ; 

 but I do not know that it would be at all less 

 wonderful, or that it would bring us much nearer 

 than we now stand to the great mystery of Crea- 

 tion. The adaptation and arrangement of natural 

 forces, which can compass these modifications of 

 animal structure, in exact proportion to the need 

 of them, is an adaptation and arrangement which 

 is in the nature of Creation. It can only be due 

 to the working of a power which is in the nature 

 of Creative Power. 



We are so accustomed to these and other 

 similar phenomena, and to hide our own igno- 

 rance of their cause, by describing them as 

 the result of " Law," that we forget what a 



