14 ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 
complex the matrix needed for its oriyinal creation 
and protection. 
Creative energy flows gestatively into every living 
organism, not only for original creation, but to re- 
produce. Life is always infused, and puts on its 
appropriate form. Life controls form. 
The life of a new species puts on its corresponding 
structure, varying radically, though by easy grada- 
tions, from the receptacle which gives it birth. Thus 
the life of a Rhizopod puts on the form of a Lhizo- 
pod—that of a dog, the form of a dog, and so en.— 
The distinction between reproduction and the crea- 
tion of a new type is, that the former is by the ordi- 
nary process of generation and birth, while the latter 
is by extraordinary generation and ordinary birth. 
Reproduction, as already stated, follows the law of 
like producing like, with individual diff-rences. God 
is the father of all his creatures, in a sense much 
broader than is usually understood. We often speak 
of Him as our Heavenly Father; but He is really 
our only progenitor. In common parlance, we have 
an earthly father ; but our fe does not come from 
him—he belongs only to the mediate causes by which 
we are created. My theory is that in the advancing 
steps of the creation of species, one is horn from an- 
other, by force of creative power, without the ordi- 
nary paternity required in reproduction. 
There is no middle ground between this theory 
and ‘“‘special creation.” Hither each species were 
