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The requested URL /mbrowse/msdb/OriginOfSpecies/description/is/It+is+scarcely+possible+to+avoid+comparing+the+eye+with+a+telescope. [[[[[images/telescope.jpg|telescope]]]]] We+know+that+this+instrument+has+been+perfected+by+the+long-continued+efforts+of+the+highest+human+intellects;+and+we+naturally+infer+that+the+eye+has+been+formed+by+a+somewhat+analogous+process. But+may+not+this+inference+be+presumptuous?+Have+we+any+right+to+assume+that+the+Creator+works+by+intellectual+powers+like+those+of+man? [[[[[images/GOD2.jpg]]]]] If+we+must+compare+the+eye+to+an+optical+instrument,+we+ought+in+imagination+to+take+a+thick+layer+of+transparent+tissue,+with+spaces+filled+with+fluid,+and+with+a+nerve+sensitive+to+light+beneath,+and+then+suppose+every+part+of+this+layer+to+be+continually+changing+slowly+in+density,+so+as+to+separate+into+layers+of+different+densities+and+thicknesses,+placed+a+different+distances+from+each+other,+and+with+the+surfaces+of+each+layer+slowly+changing+in+form. Further+we+must+suppose+that+there+is+a+power,+represented+by+natural+selection+or+the+survival+of+the+fittest,+always+intently+watching+each+slight+alteration+in+the+transparent+layers;+and+carefully+preserving+each+which,+under+varied+circumstances,+in+any+way+or+in+any+degree,+tends+to+produce+a+distincter+image. We+must+suppose+each+new+state+of+the+instrument+to+be+multiplied+by+the+million;+each+to+be+preserved+until+a+better+one+is+produced,+and+then+the+old+ones+to+be+all+destroyed. In+living+bodies,+variation+will+cause+the+slight+alterations,+generation+will+multiply+them+almost+infinitely,+and+natural+selection+will+pick+out+with+unerring+skill+each+improvement. Let+this+process+go+on+for+millions+of+years;+and+during+each+year+on+millions+of+individuals+of+many+kinds;+and+may+we+not+believe+that+a+living+optical+instrument+might+thus+be+formed+as+superior+to+one+of+glass,+as+the+works+of+the+Creator+are+to+those+of+man?/ was not found on this server.