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The creation of animal life and structures has two 
aspects :—that which we. see continually going on in 
reproduction ; and that which we have not seen, to- 
wit ; the original creation of the ancestral type of 
each species. It is our province to reason from the 
seen to the unseen. ‘The flame of burning iron gives 
a peculiar color in the spectrum, which never varies. 
That we see. The same color appears in the analy- 
sis of the solar rays, by which we gain a knowledge 
of the wnseen vapour of iron in the sun. 
All theories outside of the old, and now generally 
discarded idea of ‘special creation,” are that species 
originated through the ordinary process of genera- 
tion. It was that of Lamark, and of the ‘‘Vestiges 
of Creation”—it is that of Darwin. There is much 
of minor detail, but none go back of this process.— 
Darwin, after the production of five or six primordi- 
al types, in a way which he does not explain, propa- 
gates them in the usual way ; but varies them into 
existing species, by his much noted idea of ‘Natural 
selection.” The Duke of Argyll, who is fast gaining 
the credit of being one of the closest thinkers of the 
time, and who in his late work: ‘‘The Reign of 
Law,” has given some very cogent answers to the 
Darwinian theory, fails to see any process beyond 
