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On the Genesis of Species

CHAPTER XII
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348.
[298] The term, as before said, not being used in its ordinary theological sense, but to denote an immediate Divine action as distinguished from God's action through the powers conferred on the physical universe.
[299] See "Natural Selection," pp.

332 to 360.
[300] Loc.cit., p.

349.
[301] See Professor Huxley's "Lessons in Elementary Physiology," p.

218.
[302] It may be objected, perhaps, that excessive delicacy of the ear might have been produced by having to guard against the approach of enemies, some savages being remarkable for their keenness of hearing at great distances.
But the perceptions of _intensity_ and _quality_ of sound are very different.

Some persons who have an extremely acute ear for delicate sounds, and who are fond of music, have yet an incapacity for detecting whether an instrument is slightly out of tune.
[303] Loc.cit., pp.


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