Sec. 38. Proposition 5. If the Creator 



Made the First Animal and the First 



Plant He Made All Others 



If it be admitted that He created the first one, 

 or the first few, animals and plants, why should we 

 doubt that He created all of them? If Pie began to 

 create them, why should He cease to do so ? His works 

 are uniform, continuous and everlasting. 



But in his "Origin of Species" (vol. 2, p. 304- 

 305) Darwin says: 



"Authors of the highest eminence seem to be 

 fully satisfied with the view that each species has been 

 independently created. To my mind it accords better 

 with what we know of the laws impressed on matter 

 by the Creator, that the production and extinction of 

 the past and present inhabitants of the world should 

 have been due to secondary causes, like those deter- 

 mining the birth and death of the individual.' 



"What are "the laws impressed on matter by the 

 Creator,' that have anything to do with the repro- 

 duction cf animals and plants? What laws "im- 

 pressed en matter' have any bearing on the question 

 whether animals and plants have arisen from inor- 

 ganic matter, by spontaneous generation or by special 

 creation? Perhaps Darwin means to sny that he 

 supposes the Creator would naturally make one or a 

 few primordial forms of animal and plant and turn 

 them loose upon the earth to shift for themselves sub- 



