EVIDENCES OF DESIGN. 345 



him to turn astern, and retreat tail-first into his 

 hole as easily as he could go head-first. 



When we contemplate this grotesque and 

 strangely-formed little creature, and see how 

 wisely and wonderfully it is fashioned and adapted 

 to its destined place, supplying another missing 

 link in the great chain of Nature, we cannot but 

 feel God's power and omnipresence. Feeding in 

 the dark and living in the dark, eyes would have 

 been superfluous; sound, save from vibration in 

 the earth, or when hunting at the open cuttings, 

 would seldom reach this tiny hermit; hence the 

 hearing organs have no external appendage for 

 catching sounds, and are but in a rudimentary 

 form. Hands fashioned into marvellous digging- 

 tools, and hind-feet turned into scrapers, for 

 getting rid of the rubble dug out with the hands, 

 and nose possessing smell and touch in their 

 most exquisite forms, these serve him for guides 

 of unerring certainty and undeviatiiig precision 

 through his darksome wanderings. 



