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 fact of the development is even as great a mystery as ever. For there is as much mystery in conceiving how and why nature develops an eye from one tissue and an ear from another as there is in imagining similar development from pure protoplasm. There is no intelligence in sound waves or ether vibrations. They can neither hear nor see. They are deaf and sightless things, and can therefore give neither the consciousness of sound nor sight, much less can they form the organs of these senses. Though no other reply had been given to the reasonings that materialize spiritual phenomena, a sufficient answer is involved in those ancient yet trenchant words, "He that, planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?"

If materialistic Evolution fails to explain the causes in matter that form the physical organs, how much more must it fall short in accounting for the