The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science..
The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science..
John Harris
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Still more are we impressed Math the resources of Creative wisdom when we reflect, that while the admission of a single new principle into a complicated machine is attended with results which the utmost ingenuity can hardly anticipate, the indescribable variety of form and condition in which animal life seems to revel is the result of a principle endlessly diversified, as if for the sole purpose of showing that the difficulties created can be overcome. We might instance the various modes of rep...roduction, gemmiparous and gemmuli- parous, fissiparous and oviparous, marsupial and viviparous ; and the diversified kinds of locomotion. The number of dis- tinct species of insects already known is about a hundred thou- sand ; but while every species differs from all the rest, conform- ity is preserved throughout the whole to the same general plan of construction. Even when the purpose to be attained is identical, the means which are employed are inconceivably diversified, and although this diversity has to be carried through the minutest parts of the organization, yet every structure, from the most simple to the most complicated, is alike finished, * See the admirable Preliminary Treatise of the Library of Useful Knowledge, on the Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science.
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