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structure of man in the same mould that He had just previously used to cast the complex structure of the ape.

"When I view all beings, not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. . . There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the first law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved."

THE END.

LONDON R. CLAY, SUNS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS.

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