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spiritual part live and require this body of organs for its terres- 
trial existence ?” 
It appears to me that in the answer to this question is in- 
volved that of the former. The first, but least important answer, 
is that I could not live without animals and vegetables : their 
existence is essential to mine . But this obviously cannot be a 
complete answer, for such a necessity applies to a very small 
number of them. 
The question “ Why do I exist finds no satisfactory 
answer from nature. We must turn to Bevelation to be com- 
pletely satisfied ; and no answer equals this : It was the will of 
God that there should be a being who could be moral , and that, 
he should pass through a period of probation before he be fitted 
to enjoy that state to which his spiritual part is naturally best 
adapted. 
Now turn to the former question, “ Why do animals exist ?” 
or, “ Why did the world see long series of developments, ” 
successive types ascending the scale of life, each in turn gaining 
its ascendancy, acquiring a maximum of development in some 
direction or other, and then gradually subsiding, yielding its 
position to its successor, until man entered upon the scene too, 
and he in turn took his place at the head of the world and then 
subdued it. A more complete reply will be obtained when we 
have considered the fourth instance of design ; for it is only 
when we take note of the fact that a large group of animals 
(the vertebrates) are constituted on the same plan as man ; 
conspicuously by their osteological characters ; that we see not 
only a bond of union between him and them, but the design of 
their existence only finds its end or climax in man, whose 
bodily structures furnish the last links in the chain of animal 
creation. Physiologists have shown beyond question that in 
bodily structure he cannot be separated from the primates ; 
that the human foetus obeys the same laws of development and 
differentiation which govern the foetuses of all other crea- 
tures : that is, it passes through certain representative forms of 
other vertebrates in succession upwards. Moreover, man has 
rudimentary organs in an exactly similar manner to all other 
animals. Now observe the consequence of this. The facts 
upon which the doctrine of evolution rests in its application to 
the animal kingdom thus become necessarily applicable to 
man’s bodily structure also. If, therefore, evolution be true 
for the former, it must be true for maids body also. Thus far, 
then, at least, man cannot be severed from other animals. Away 
with that contemptibly false pride which ridicules, ignores, or 
falsifies these facts, facts which are real synonyms of truth. What 
care I from what I may have been descended ? I am myself, 
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