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bined, have any tendency to produce or reproduce 
active forms endued with automatic power, or have 
any analogy with organized beings. 
While vitality exists, the agencies of chemistry, or 
mutual re-agencies of animal components, are com- 
pletely suspended. The moment of withdrawn vi- 
tality is that of the commencement of chemical 
agency, producing the dissolution of organic struc- 
ture. 
Organic structure is a manifest disposition of parts 
to a predestined end; as of hands to various occu- 
pations, feet to locomotion, wings to flight, fins to 
motion in water, mouths to food, lungs to respira- 
tion, &c. 
Organic structure then has relation to a power 
prior to all organic existence, a power to predesti- 
nate, to contemplate an end, and to appoint means 
of attaining such end. 
The operation of this power we have traced in 
unity of plan through numerous analogies in various 
classes of organized beings. 
The formation of creatures merely capable of liv- 
ing for a limited period upon earth, and then dying, 
and becoming merely dust, could not be the sole ob- 
ject of the great universal Organizer. 
The Giver of life has given mind also. Organi- 
zation requires a moving principle or power to guide 
it to its end. But were that principle merely a 
power to originate and continue motion, the moving 
machines would run over cliffs and be dashed to 
pieces, and into water and be drowned. But mind 
