228 CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



representative of. his order {bimana)] lie has no nearer 

 physical relations with the brute kind than those that 

 belong^ to the characters which link tos^ether the uns-iiicu- 

 late division of the mammalian class. 



Of the nature of the creative acts by which the succes- 

 sive races of animals were called into being, we are igno- 

 rant. But this we know, that as the evidence of unity 

 of plan testifies to the oneness of the Creator, so the 

 modifications of the plan for different modes of existence 

 illustrate the beneficence of the Designer. Those struc- 

 tures, moreover, which are at present incomprehensible 

 as adaptations to a special end, are made comprehensible 

 on a higher principle, and a final purpose is gained in 

 relation to human intelligence; for in the instances where 

 the analogy of humanly invented machines fails to ex- 

 plain the structure of a divinely created organ, such 

 organ does not exist in vain if its truer comprehension, 

 in relation to the Divine idea, or prime Exemplar, lead 

 rational beings to a better conception of their own origin 

 and Creator. 



