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216 a conviction that the law of lineal descent, with the holding power of heredity and the directing power of an all comprehensive plan, entered together into its creation. The Almighty's work of creation, as recorded among these Shoshone hills of Miocene times, may properly be defined as a providential bringing together of the agencies of mountain streams, of uplifting forces, of scattering seeds, of the nurture of plants and animals and of the gathering into this favored region the life that this same Providence stretching over a preceding ages, had prepared for this Western Eden of the Miocene."