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is something added to the step below, there are unmistakable evidences of a 

 unity of design, such as would result from a unity of Supreme Intelligence. 

 The likeness of finite intelligence to Infinite Intelligence, is shown both 

 by the power of partially comprehending the designs of the Creator and 

 by the power of scientific anticipation, which sometimes leads to important 

 scientific discoveries. 



Evolution, development, execution of purpose, are facts of every day ex- 

 perience. Religion, Morality and Science are all called to deal with them, 

 each according to its own methods. Science, of its own choice, has taken 

 the mechanical method, which is the lowest of all, although it may lie as im- 

 portant as any, provided it is employed in the proper spirit. All the details 

 of evolution and development, which can be discovered by the most untiring 

 search, are portions of God's truth, and we owe many thanks to the earnest, 

 hard-working men through whose diligence they are made known to us. 

 But evolution as a fact or law expressing a Divine method, is one thing ; evo- 

 lution as a self-sufficient theory, is quite another thing. The fact must be 

 accepted, just so far as it is shown to be a fact, and no further ; the theory 

 is only a child's answer to questions of the highest import. 



The engineer, deeply interested in the workings of an intricate machine, 

 may study it in all its parts, watching the bearing of every joint, and lever, 

 and cog, and band upon the result which the whole combination was 

 intended to bring about, and admiring the simplicity of contrivance 

 which, by avoiding all superfluity, displays the inventor's wondrous skill. 

 His own knowledge may be enlarged by the study, and he may find him- 

 self greatly helped b} r it in subsequent important professional undertakings. 

 But what should we think of his scientific wisdom, if he should try to enlight- 

 en us in regard to the orgin of the machine, by telling us that the atom-souls 

 give up their individual independence and subordinate themselves to the 

 molecular-souls ; that the molecular-souls, in their turn, subordinate them- 

 selves to the joint- and lever- and cog- and band-souls ; that the joint- and 

 lever- and cog- and band-souls subordinate themselves to the machine-soul ; 

 that ali the lower forms of consciousness thus become tributary to the higher 

 consciousness of the machine's state-soul or personal soul, which represents 

 the unity of will and purpose in the atom association ; and that thus all the 

 phenomena of the machine are brought into a mechanical causal connec- 

 tion as parts of a great and uniform process of development '? If we study 

 the mechanism of the eye and ear, and the contrivance by which they are 

 fitted for their intended purposes, can we show any greater wisdom by sug- 

 gesting a similar explanation as final and sufficient? Religion, Morality 

 and Science may all be satisfied by accepting the teaching of David and 

 Solomon, and in no other way: "He that planted the ear, shall be not 

 hear'.' He that formed the eye, shall be not see?" "The hearing ear, 

 and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them." 



There can be no question that a too great and exclusive absorption in the 

 study of outward nature, will lead us towards materialism, and that ma- 

 terialism will tend to dwarf our spiritual growth. There is little risk, 



