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or never appear in any being; as indeed is shown by that old, but some-
what exaggerated, canon in natural history of "Natura non facit saltum."
[Nature does not make leaps]. 348
How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than
how life itself originated. 349
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting
the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light,