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and design, are opposed by anything that can be found in Dar- 
win’s theory ; for so far, Darwin’s laws are supposed not to have 
not come into operation. Give the animals thus organized, food 
and room, and they may go on, from generation to generation, 
upon the same organic level. Those individuals that, from nat 
ural variation, are born with light-nerves a little more sensitive 
to light than their parents, will cross or interbreed with those 
who have the same organs a.‘little less sensitive, and thus the 
mean standard will be kept up without any advancement. If 
our billiard table were sufficiently extensive, @. e., infinite, the 
balls rolled from the corners would never meet and the neces 
these were designed,—and the animal would have gone 02 ra 
out eyes. The balls would have found the corners of the table 
While, therefore, it seems to me clear that one who can a 
no proof of the existence of an intelligent creator, except throug 
é j : : n find no evr 
ion of their balls; but neither the formation of the eye; 
path of the balls after collision, furnishes any sufficient Pt 
such design in either case. : 
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