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CHAPTER XIII.
THEORIES OF EVOLUTION. Theories of Evolution and Creation by External Agency-Spencerian Formulation of the Principle of Evolution-Difficulties in Spencerian hypothesis.
In the preceeding chapter, we have seen that from our point of view, the Universe has been in existence from all eternity. We ih
the world. cannot conceive of a time when it was not. But still for all that there are other hypothesis which either speak of the alternate eras of evolution and dessolution of the Universe as a whole or take it to have been created by the some all powerful external agency from the materials that lay by Him when all these abounding in names and forms were not. And ere we enter on any further details as to the phenomenal changes, transformation of the world as these present themselves to us, it is important that we should discuss in brief the different important hypothesis which are also prevalent more or less in these days of scientific culture and refinement.
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