148 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 
for the care and feeding of the young. But this is to 
be the subject-of a separate chapter. 
As long as we thought of each sort of animal as be- 
ing a separate species shaped in the beginning by the 
hands of the Creator, each of these devices seemed to 
us a new manifestation of the Divine Providence, 
whose fertile planning had conceived so many methods 
of providing for his children. Unconsciously we 
thought of God acting as man acted. Each animal 
seemed a purely separate invention purposely designed 
for an especial place. Now we understand the plan 
in creation better, and see that each animal has come 
from another not quite like itself, some distance 
back, and this from still another. Our admiration 
for these devices as they arise through evolution is 
no less, but takes on another form. 
