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theologian have to say, save that God’s works are 
even more wonderful than he always believed them 
to be? As for the theory being impossible—that is 
is to be decided by men of science, on strict experi- 
mental grounds. As for us theologians, who are we, 
that we should limit, 4 priori, the power of God? 
‘Is anything too hard for the Lord?’ asked the 
prophet of old; and we have a right to ask it as 
long as the world shall last. If it be said that 
‘natural selection, or, as Mr. Herbert Spencer 
better defines it, the ‘survival of the fittest,’ is 
too simple a cause to produce such fantastic variety 
—that, again, is a question to be settled exclusively 
by men of science, on their own grounds. We, 
meanwhile, always knew that God works by 
very simple, or seemingly simple, means; that 
the universe, as far as we could discern it, was one 
organization of the most simple means. It was 
wonderful—or should have been—in our eyes, that 
a shower of rain should make the grass grow, and 
that the grass should become flesh, and the flesh 
food for the thinking brain of man. It was—or | 
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