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"But," say I, "what sublime intelligence conceived the plan of those
machines, and what kind of sublimely skilful craftsman was able to
fashion them?"
"They were made automatically by the various trees and plants."
"But who conceived the plan of the trees and plants?"
"The trees and plants were produced automatically by other little seeds,
like these."
"But the first one of these seeds, or the first one of these trees--who
conceived and executed that?"
"Oh, that," says the scientific intellect, "came about through a process
of evolution, which extends way back thousands of centuries. We have
studied it carefully and reasoned it all out to our entire satisfaction.
"These plant seeds are only one part of it. There are also all the
animals and animalculae, including man. There are thousands of different
kinds of living creatures and each kind has a distinct design from all
the rest, which appears to have been determined by the special purpose
for which it was intended.
"As a matter of fact, they are nothing more or less than the results of
evolution, natural selection and the survival of the fittest.
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