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 to uninterrupted existence. Unorganized matter requires the fewest conditions for its existence, and in its simplest form it is absolutely indestructible; consequently nothing is so fitted to survive as unorganized matter. If Survival of the Fittest were a law of nature causing her to bring forth that most fitted to survive in the struggle for existence, it would never have allowed the goats to bring forth sheep or cattle, nor would rock have produced grass or any organized form; for goats are better fitted to survive than sheep or cattle, and rock is less perishable than grass. Again, if Survival of the Fittest were applicable to the derivation of a higher genus from a lower, the natural universe itself never could have become organized; for Evolutionists hold that eventually its energies will be spent, and that it will return to the original nebula. From this it appears that nebula is better fitted to survive than an organized universe, and that the law of Survival of the Fittest would have perpetually prevented the formation even of an earth. Certainly this is a legitimate conclusion if Survival of the Fittest were a law applicable to the bringing forth of higher genera from the lower.

It is safe to bear ever in mind that the laws of nature are not only as eternal as matter, but that they can have no exception, and that if one