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not be conceivable by the lay mind. It is sufficient that the propounders of the theory have not found it hard to formulate it. Is there no affinity between the two types of electricity, the positive and the negative? Why can't you believe that the relationship has evolved out into the complexity of the sexual life in the course of millions of years? Would you insist on further elaboration ? Then know that miracles do not admit of such treatment even in dogmatic religion, and there is no other alternative. Our advice to the reader is to yield, and not to raise a storm over such a simple matter. Surely, there can be no great difficulty in believing that even the pavement stones on which we walk every day may have invisible sex life. Remember electricity is all pervading and must be present in the pavement stones too.
The fourth miracle is the evolution of the sense of taste. No doubt every one is not expected to understand how an inherent crude nucleus of tactile atomic sensitivity gave rise to sensations of sweetness, bitterness and the like ; but that is due to the intellectual inferiority of the average man. Men of learning have found no difficulty in assuming it; and they wisely do not bother themselves about details, which can serve no useful purpose in the present state of our knowledge. Does it strike you as very wonderful that taste should always be associated with the tongue? There is a little bit of difficulty in accounting for this no doubt ; but then you and I cannot account always for such simple phenomenon as the colour of coal--rather, we ought to say, the colourlessness of coal, since black is no colour in the language of science,
The fifth miracle is the development of smell. It, too, must have come out of touch or taste, and it is no good worrying oneself or others about the how and the why of it. The difficulty about the absence of the stages of development remains even in this case ; but that only goes to show that we have not learnt all about this sense yet,
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