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characters carried to the point where the original 
creative ideal has been so completely transformed 
that, but for the accident of the chain being still 
complete, no one of nature’s interpreters could possibly 
have discovered the connexion. For, as we have seen, 
this is not a case in which any appeal can be logically 
made to the argument from ignorance of divine method, 
unless some independent evidence could be adduced 
in favour of special creation. And that no such inde- 
pendent evidence exists, it will be the object of future 
chapters to show. 
