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52 mere order as a proof of intelligence. Paley'a argument, as to special ends, will ever retain its distinct, substantive character, while it, in no degree, interferes with the argument from mere order or arrangement.

The necessity of extending the argument beyond that of mere use was seen, when there were found, in the animal structure, parts which appeared to serve no purpose, but were there merely as indicating a general pattern, after which the class was constructed. In vertebrate animals, there is discoverable a general type, amidst the infinite diversity of form. There are undeveloped limbs which are of no use to the particular animal in which they are found, but which point to a Divine intelligence by indicating the fact, that all vertebrate animals were constructed after the same general pattern. Owen imagines that we have not, in this globe, all the diversities of which this general pattern or archetype is susceptible, and that limbs, which are found only in an undeveloped state in this world, may be fully developed in the other planetary bodies.

We have not been able to discover any living forms in the moon, and we cannot, therefore, say whether the pattern that prevails here is also the lunar model. We can, however, detect on the surface of the moon a configuration that conforms to the plan on which the earth's surface is modelled. We have undeveloped forms on our earth, which we find