ale. It is the germ vitalizing organ and the most essential part of
the generative apparatus. The ovary is not only an organ for the formation
of the ova, but is also designed for their separation when they reach
maturity.

7. FALLOPIAN TUBES.--These are the ducts that lead from the ovaries to the
uterus. They are entirely detached from the glands or ovaries, and are
developed on both sides of the body.

8. OFFICE OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES.--The Fallopian tubes have a double
office: receiving the ova from the ovaries and conducting it into the
uterus, as well as receiving the spermatic fluid of the male and conveying
it from the uterus in the direction of the ovaries, the tubes being the
seat of impregnation.

[Illustration: OVUM.]

9. STERILITY IN FEMALES.--Sterility in the female is sometimes caused by a
morbid adhesion of the tube to a portion of the ovary. By what power the
mouth of the tube is directed toward a particular portion of an ovary from
which the ovum is about to be discharged, remains entirely unknown, as does
also the precise nature of the cause which effects this movement.

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE FORMATION OF LIFE.

[Illustration: Ripe Ovum from the Ovary.]

1. SCIENTIFIC THEORIES.--Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Tyndall, Meyer, and other
renowned scientists, have tried to find the _missing link_ between man and
animal; they have also exhausted their genius in trying to fathom the
mysteries of the beginning of life, or find where the animal and mineral
kingdoms unite to form life; but they have added to the vast accumulation
of theories only, and the world is but little wiser on this mysterious
subject.

2. PHYSIOLOGY.--Physiology has demonstrated what physiological changes take
place in the germination and formation of life, and how nature expresses
the intentions of reproduction by giving animals distinctive organs with
certain secretions for this purpose, etc. All the different stages of
development can be easily determined, but how and why life takes place
under such special condition and under no other, is an unsolved mystery.

3. OVARIES.--The ovaries are the essential parts of the generative system
of the human female in which ova are matured. There are two ovaries, one on
each side of the uterus, and connected with it by the Fallopian tubes. They
are egg-shaped, about an inch in diameter, and furnish the {239} germs or
ovules. These germs or