14 SPECIES NOT 



our finite minds are too apt to interpret and 

 criticise. Instead of studying the works of nature 

 with the light which we possess, and endeavouring 

 to discover by the aid of the highest and most 

 cultivated reason, the different steps in the great 

 plan of creation; Mr. Darwin, and those who 

 follow him, have erected a system of their own. 

 which, without displaying the power and the 

 beauty of Infinite Wisdom, has from beginning 

 to end marked upon it the imperfections and 

 often bungling creations of a human intellect. 



It is the object of the following pages to shew 

 that Mr. Darwin's case is not proved, and t hat- 

 consequently it cannot supersede that theory of 

 special creation, of which we have the most con- 

 vincing proof. 



Before we examine however more minutely 

 into the grounds upon which Mr. Darwin's whole 

 theory is based, let us consider for a moment 

 two propositions. 



First. What does Mr. Darwin's theory really 

 mean ? 



Most people in these reading days are aware 

 that previous to the appearance of Mr. Darwin's 

 book, there have been brought before the world 

 two great speculations about the origin and de- 

 velopment of species. Lamarck, like Darwin, a 

 givat naturalist, and who had a more intimate 

 acquaintance with species than perhaps any other 

 man of his day, conceived the extraordinary no- 

 tion not only that all living things originated in 

 one primordial form, but that they were developed 



