﻿ORIGIN 
  OF 
  SPECIES. 
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  will 
  and 
  pleasure, 
  and 
  as 
  His 
  agents 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  

   means 
  of 
  communicating 
  life."* 
  The 
  same 
  

   language 
  might 
  be 
  applied, 
  without 
  the 
  altera- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  a 
  word, 
  to 
  the 
  origin 
  of 
  species, 
  if 
  it 
  

   were 
  indeed 
  true 
  that 
  new 
  kinds 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   new 
  individuals 
  were 
  created 
  by 
  being 
  born. 
  

   The 
  truth 
  is, 
  that 
  the 
  argument 
  which 
  has 
  so 
  

   often 
  been 
  employed 
  to 
  elevate 
  our 
  conception 
  

   of 
  the 
  wisdom 
  hid 
  in 
  secondary 
  causes, 
  is 
  an 
  

   argument 
  which 
  only 
  gains 
  increasing 
  strength 
  

   and 
  force 
  in 
  proportion 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  and 
  

   involution 
  of 
  those 
  causes, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  extent 
  

   and 
  scope 
  of 
  their 
  effects. 
  If 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  

   diminish, 
  but 
  only 
  augments 
  the 
  wonder 
  of 
  

   Organic 
  Life, 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  contrived 
  

   as 
  to 
  be 
  capable 
  of 
  propagating 
  itself, 
  neither 
  

  

  * 
  Charge, 
  1867. 
  

  

  