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Have no physical laws been used, whereby these 

 new forms of beauty have been evolved, the one 

 from the other, in a series so wonderful for its 

 variety in unity, and its unity in variety ? I am 

 not now seeking to answer this question in the 

 negative. All I say is, that the physical laws 

 which are made subservient to this purpose are 

 entirely unknown to us. That particular combin- 

 ation of a great many natural laws, which Mr 

 Darwin groups under the name of Natural Selec- 

 tion, does not in the least answer the conditions 

 which we seek in a law to account for either the 

 origin or the spread of such creatures as the various 

 kinds of Humming Birds. On the other hand, if 

 I am asked whether I believe that every separate 

 Species has been a separate creation — not born, 

 but separately made — I must answer, that I do 

 not believe it. I think the facts do suggest to the 

 mind the idea of the working of some creative Law, 

 almost as certainly as they convince us that we 

 know nothing of its' nature, or of the conditions 

 under which it does its glorious work. Our ex- 

 perience of the existing Order of Nature is, that 

 the young of each species repeat the form and the 



