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Perhaps he really holds that the Creator, 1n creating 
them for His own delight, had in view the pleasure they 
would give to his supreme effort, Man’s ‘reasonable soul,’ 
To this it is questioned, to what purpose, through 
long eras, have ‘Papilio,’ and ‘Paradisea’ wasted their 
marvellous beauty in the groves of the Papuan, and 
Malay; beings who take no delight, nor remark beauty 
in them (no more delight, it may well be, than the 
English labourer takes in ‘ Vanessa,’ or in ‘ Pavo,’ as he 
sweeps over the lawn of the village Hall): that the beauty, 
and time were alike wasted, until the arrival of ‘Homo 
Sapiens,’ to pin the one into his collecting box: and 
stuff the other with cotton wool and cork. But then, on 
this late arrival, they are at length appreciated ,; and their 
pictures taken; and themselves stuffed; and their history 
written; and the naturalist world delighted. 
Even if the idea concerning the Papuan Man be the 
truth, which may fairly be doubted, is it not the broader 
view that God could create, and bide his time for the 
arrival of Educated Man to admire his creation; for after 
all it would seem that the end has been accomplished in 
the visit of Mr. Wallace; and thus the broader view is, 
that God could afford to wait until the beauty of his 
creatures were fitly appreciated by the one Being capable 
of so doing. 
Creatures each doing his share fo ratse man’s eyes to 
his Maker, but failing wofully where they only serve to 
give him more ‘data’ wherewith to make the Almighty 
contradict himself. Why is it thought a thing impossible 
that all these glories have been made, among other results, 
to delight, and raise the eyeof Man. He who spared not 
his Son, but gave him up to be a sacrifice for sin; how 
should he not, with Him, freely give all things to one 
made in His own Image. 
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