LECTURES. 39 
Natural Selection tells that the bee and flower knew nothing of this 
destination—they only possessed the power of variation, and nature 
did the rest. The flower with the bluer throat or the bee with the 
longer tongue survived in the battle of life, and transmitted their pe- 
culiarity to their descendants. Nature is indeed making new creatures 
out of old, or in Mother Carey’s grand old words, she sits there and 
makes them make themselves. Let us remember for a moment the 
Great Author of nature, who, endowing His creatures with this my- 
sterious power of variation, has clothed our earth asa garden. Surely 
we may say with fuller realisation than of old, “Such knowledge is 
too wonderful for me, I cannot attain to it.” 
