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lated, in carrying on all His living creation from simple to higher forms 
through infinite processes of generation. He who has forbidden the con- 
founding of nearly allied species, cannot be taken to have carried on the 
processes of generation, in violation of the ban against the confusion of 
species, and in disregard of all the classifications science has adopted from 
the study of creation, only the better to describe and understand that 
creation, On the contrary, it is to be taken that generation has no part 
in the work of creation ; but has only her assigned duty, under regulative 
laws, to propagate creatures of the same species, of two sexes, to repro- 
duce a progeny like unto themselves. All that we can see and know of 
creation brings us to such conclusion. To create is one thing, and to 
propagate in the parental likeness another. The propagator but fulfills an 
assigned instinet that is essentially imperative, except as man is self-re- 
strained by over-ruling moral considerations. His function is a very 
limited one. The inception of new life, its gestation and growth, and the 
measure of that growth are the work of that Higher Life or Being, that 
is, the Giver of all life, as we must logically infer ; for every effect must 
have its adequate Cause. 
The great distinctions of classes, orders, genera and species, as the 
proofs stand in geology, history, monuments and living nature, have ever 
remained unchanged and wnobliterated ; while variations within species, 
have been permitted for obviously good uses to man. The mules that he 
breeds do him good service, but mules are not permitted to breed mules. 
A theory that would permit a varying generation to thwart this grand 
order of life, and that would traverse all these classes, orders, genera and 
species by violations of the ban we know to forbid hybrids to breed, we 
may simply set down as contrary to nature and impossible, and such 
theory demands the clearest and most indubitable proofs, none of which 
have been adduced. 
The theory is wholly illogical and inherently inconsistent with itself. 
The whole drift of the theory is to make generation build up all created 
life, with one or a few exceptions, without a Creator. But why any ex- 
ception? Only that there shall be a starting point in life; that there 
shall be an incipient generator in this mighty process. But this earliest 
life must have had a Creator, and the capacity to generate life through all 
kinds must have come from a Creator ; yet this theory demands none, at 
the beginning, or in any stage of progression, but it obviously pro- 
ceeds upon the ground that generation will suffice for all life, and that 
life needs no Creator. Yet there is an overruling power, without which 
generation could not proceed, without whom there would be no ban 
against confusion, and without whom the required difference of sex would 
not come into being in the requisite proportion. The reasonable inference 
to be made is, that as a Creator was required for the first life demanded 
by the Darwinian theory, and for all its processes of generation, and the 
after preservation of all creatures born, the same Creator would him- 
self create all the creatures that share his protection, in all their various 
species, and do so as the world was prepared for them, and was of the 
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