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ns of animal life, and from the inner those of organic (or vege- 
tative) life; and then, in its uterine deyelopment, exhibiting suc- 
cessively resemblances, more or less close, to the lower animals; 
the human embryo, for example, having, about the twenty-fifth 
day, the branchial openings and elongated body of a fish, ata 
later period the imperfect limbs of a seal, and still later the bent 
limbs of a quadruped. These, and many analogous particulars 
in the history of the human embryo, make this one of the most 
inexplicable and yet suggestive Senses of existence. One might 
well i oe that the ‘‘monad” retraces his footsteps along that 
immeasurable on from "panera being, and as it repeats, 
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But I write this note ied to refer to an article ‘in the eae American Review 
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laws exist, that he has ever conformed to them and must ever do so, it is because I 
believe that they are the eternal instruments of his ever active’ love and wisdom. In 
the words in which Dr, Holmes sums up the whole matter at the close of his article 
in the N. A. Review, “whatever part may be assigned to the p ysical forces in the 
production and phenomena of life, all oo is not the less one perpetual miracle, in 
which the Infinite Creator, acting through what we often eall seco ary causes, is 
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