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many years' microscopical examination of the lower and minute forms of life the writer, while observing the beauty and variety of their external form, their wonderfully intricate interior organization, and the perfect adaptation of every part of each tiny organism to accomplish its own special work, has frequently been led to inquire into the truth of the widely accepted Darwinian theories of Evolution and Natural Selection. Believing, as he does, after very careful consideration, their entire failure to account for the existence of the numerous distinct species of plants and animals in the world around us, he ventures, on the basis of New Church philosophy, to lay before the reader a few thoughts on the subject. The information contained in the Writings of Swedenborg of the Divine method and plan of Creation is of a far loftier and more interior character than anything contained in the theories 1