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Pagets Lectures on Surgical Pathology

1st. Edition Vol. 1st. Page 150 [1853]

Speaking of the capacity of living bodies to repair injuries, as a very marvellous thing, he goes on

"but it seems much more so, that in the embryo, each of these parts was made fit for offices and relations that were then future: and yet more marvellous than all it seems, that each of them should still have capacity for action in events that are not only future, but uncertain; that are indeed possible, yet are in only so low a degree probable, that if ever they happen they will be called accidents"

Note on the above passage, by the late Henry Thomas Buckle

"It would seen to militate against Darwin's theory — the physiology of repair. The capacity of the human frame

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"frame to repair injuries,— that, as Paget remarks, are in so low a degree probable, that if they happen they are called accidents, appears to be a strong argument for Divine design"