If it had not, where did it get them?
If it had all the life and intelligence in the universe in itself, it was a very extraordinary kind of God.

We shall call it the _mud-god_.

Our atheists then believe in a god of muddy body and intelligent mind.

But if they deny intelligence to the mud, then we are back to our original difficulty, with a large appendix, viz: _The paving stones made themselves first and all atheists afterward._ The whole theory of development is utterly false in its first principles.

From the beginning of the world to the present day, no man has ever observed an instance of the spontaneous generation of life.
There is no law of nature, whether electric, magnetic, odylic, or any other, which can produce a living plant or animal, save from the germ or seed of some previous plant or animal of the same species.