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all, thzs success, such as tt 7s, touches the point of 
‘Evolution’ no more nearly than Darwin’s doves touch. 
Because man, ina short space of time, has produced the 
legs of the horse to those of the racehorse, by selection; are 
we to believe, by drawing infinitely on the bank of time, 
that drought, acting detrimentally upon foliage, has 
caused the legs, shoulders, neck, and tongue of the Giraffe 
to reach their present dimensions in the “ struggle for 
existence.” 
Whether is it easy to accept these views, or the view 
of Creation of pazrs ; culminating in the Creation of Man, 
and man’s responsible Soul: and this, without pressing 
every item in the revealed account; without insisting 
that the Red Grouse was created expressly for these 
Islands; or Usher’s view that the world has lasted exactly 
6,000 years. 
What is the difficulty with those, who, not believing 
in afortuitous concourse of atoms, or of gases, as the origin 
or species; but believing that after all everything is the 
result of the Creator’s energy, what difficulty is there in 
the idea that (for all there is, or seems to be, implanted 
in the creatures a certain inherent power to develop in 
directions useful to themselves), the instances detected 
of links between species, and genera severally, may be 
simply instances of sfeczally created links : even as the 
only message worthy of credit from God has declared to 
be the case: albeit the /anguage in which the message is 
couched, to be intelligible, cow/d only march ‘ pari passu’ 
with the knowledge to which man had attained, at the date 
of tts delivery. 
How vainly men of deep research have striven to 
find ‘he missing fink: and to prove the antiquity of man 
to be older than Moses saw in Seer’s vision. But Geology 
still shows that He was the last, as well as the noblest of 
God’s handiwork. 
