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Species. There might be the most minute and 

 perfect harmony between the changes effected 

 in an animal newly born, without those changes 

 tending even in the most remote degree towards 

 the establishment of a new Form of Life. In 

 order to that establishment there must be another 

 correlation, and a correlation of a higher kind. 

 There must be a correlation between those 

 changes and all the outward conditions amidst 

 which the new Form is to be placed and live. If 

 this correlation fails, the new Form will die. Yet, 

 so far as we can see, this kind of correlation is 

 without any physical cause. It is not necessarily 

 involved, as the other kind of correlation is, in the 

 very idea of Growth. On the contrary, it is not 

 only entirely separable in thought, but, as we see 

 in monstrosities, it is sometimes separated in fact. 

 We have no conception of any Force emanating 

 from external things which shall mould the struc- 

 ture of an organism in harmony with themselves. 

 Mr Darwin freely confesses this, and says that 

 many considerations "incline him to lay very 

 little weight on the direct action of the condi- 

 tions of life " in producing variety of Form. We 



