﻿THE 
  THEOkY 
  OF 
  TRANSMUTATION. 
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  power 
  came 
  simultaneously 
  with 
  the 
  change 
  

   in 
  physical 
  organization, 
  then 
  it 
  was 
  all 
  that 
  

   we 
  can 
  ever 
  know 
  or 
  understand 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  

   creation. 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  ground 
  whatever 
  for 
  

   supposing 
  that 
  ordinary 
  generation 
  has 
  been 
  

   the 
  agency 
  employed, 
  seeing 
  that 
  no 
  effects 
  

   similar 
  in 
  kind 
  are 
  ever 
  produced 
  by 
  that 
  

   agency, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  us. 
  The 
  theory 
  

   of 
  Transmutation 
  in 
  all 
  its 
  forms, 
  even 
  as 
  

   applied 
  to 
  the 
  lower 
  animals, 
  is 
  exposed 
  to 
  

   many 
  difficulties 
  greater 
  than 
  those 
  which 
  it 
  

   professes 
  to 
  remove. 
  But 
  as 
  applied 
  to 
  Man, 
  

   those 
  difficulties 
  are 
  accumulated 
  to 
  an 
  in- 
  

   calculable 
  degree. 
  Most 
  of 
  them, 
  too, 
  are 
  

   altogether 
  of 
  a 
  special 
  kind, 
  because 
  the 
  

   divergence 
  which 
  ordinary 
  generation 
  is 
  sup- 
  

   posed 
  to 
  have 
  produced 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Man 
  is 
  

  

  