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CONCLUDING KEMABKS. 



Chap. XXVIII. 



of the same general laws, which have been the grounclu 



through natural selection of the formation of th 

 fectly adapted animals in the world, man included 



per 



tionally and specially guided 



However much 



may 



sh 



hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief « that 



has been led alon 



tD 



beneficial lines," lil? 



ition." If 



earn " along definite and useful lines of irrigation." 

 lume that each particular variation was from the be 



time preordained, the plasticity of organisation 



of all time 



leads to many injur 



redundant power of reproduction which inevi 



struggle for existence, and, as a consequence 



misation, which 

 deviations of structure, as well as that 



ably leads to a 



to 



al 



selection or survival of the fittest, must appear to us superfluous 



i other hand, an omnipotent and omni 



laws of 



On 



scient Creator ordains 



ything and for 



ything 



Thus we are brought face to face with a difficulty as insoluble 



<L 



that of free will and predestination 







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