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 the parent animal, until the seeds become respectively receptacles of these forces: but when the seeds are perfected, or when the animal is born, they no longer receive life through the parent, but being themselves like their parents, though rudimentary in form, are weaned, and then they receive life from the general sphere, as do their parents.

The parent can receive only its own kind of life, because the admissibility of life-force depends upon the specific form of organization, consequently only seed of its own kind can be produced. Search wherever we will, among plants or animals, there will be found no evidence contradicting the general law illustrated by "the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind."

Since reproduction takes place according to such principles, and first forms were created in the seed that was a form in Correspondence with the creative force within, it may be concluded that Evolution, its modified presentations, and the adding of superior parts to a lower form are theories wholly without the facts necessary to credence. It may also be seen how fundamentally and internally the laws of the universe forbid the remotest possibility of any such occurrences, and that any adaptation of the theory of Evolu-