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the watch had a maker. In tlie present state ol' society 

 they might go further, and imagine that savage, find- 

 ing first a part of the watch, then going a little further 

 and finding another part, and so on. As be picked up the 

 various pieces he would say, not only that they came from 

 the same hand, but also that they had been made upon the 

 same type and the same plan. (Ilear, hear.) Captain 

 Cox had said that the caterpillar was invariably formed of 

 thirteen segments. That fact reminded him of another 

 equally significant. Let them look at the neck of the 

 giraffe, so long as to enable it to feed upon the branches of 

 trees, and compare it with the neck of the little mole which 

 burrowed in the earth. Wide as was the difference between 

 the two, the neck of the mole was composed of precisely 

 the same number of segments as that of the giraffe. (Hear.) 

 It was only of late years that naturalists had taken this 

 catholic view of nature. Formerly Cuvier, while he looked 

 into the questions of final causes and the uses of things, did 

 not rise to the great discovery that all things were made 

 on the same typo. The philosophy of final causes was that 

 of the useful, but there was a higher philosophy than th^t 

 of the useful — it was conformity to one Supreme Will. 

 (Cheers.) 



The Rev, — Jcnner seconded the proposal for a vote &f 

 thanks, which was accorded with loud cheers. 



Captain Cox, in acknowledging the compliment, expressed 

 a hope that the society would receive numerous accessions 

 of members, especially among the younger branches. The 

 subscription had been fixed extremely low, in order that 

 they might have the hundreds and not the units. (Cheers.) 



Major Munn was happy to have the opportuuity of 

 adding his testimony to the ability with which the lecture 

 had been marked. Captain Cox had mentioned a friend of 

 his who was a great "nigger-killer." He (Major Munn) 

 was the person alluded to, and he must plead guilty to the 

 charge. He did so the more confidently as the slave trade 

 had bcfu suppressed and the audience having borne with 



