The author of the "Vestiges of Creation" also, in order to fill up this gap, declares that "the first step in the creation of life on this planet was a chemico-electric operation by which simple germinal vesicles were produced." (Vestiges of Creation, page 106.) Mr. Darwin sneeringly asks the advocates of special creation if "they really believe that at innumerable periods of the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues!" (Page 418.) We certainly cannot see any insuperable difficulty in admitting a supernatural agency for the production of each new form introduced, after admitting it for the first one, or as Mr. Darwin prefers, the first four or more; especially until some secondary cause has been proved sufficient to account for their origin, and thus dispense with the further necessity for a primary one.

ction of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving,

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Character Extinction, , Vestiges Creation, Reproduction Inheritance, Natural Selection, Struggle Life, Ratio Increase, growth reproduction, vestiges creation, struggle life, law force, germinal vesicles,