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a God who made the world in which we live, 

 and adapted every living thing in that scheme 

 of creation to the circumstances under which it 

 exists. Every animal is formed by intelligent 

 thought for its position, and specially organized 

 for the mode in which He willed it to live. 

 The whole scheme is one of exquisite beauty, 

 formed upon a unity of plan and of design, 

 which, though we may not comprehend it, always 

 gives a thrill of delight to the true student of 

 Nature. It is admitted even by the coldest and 

 least imaginative bookworm that ever toiled 

 through a blank and hopeless existence, that 

 this unity of type and design does unconsciously 

 raise the mind from u Nature up to Nature's 

 God." 



This feeling is one innate in the human mind, 

 and who shall dare to say that it is not one of 

 the means by which He chooses to reveal His 

 Omnipotence and Power. I have and shall avoid 

 the many arguments which the Bible might afford 

 me in this inquiry. I fully admit that there may 

 be forced interpretations of the Pentateuch. But 

 I will leave others to use these weapons if they 

 choose. I repudiate Mr. Darwin's theory, but 

 I will draw my arguments from Science and 

 Natural Keligion alone, and this simply because 

 Mr. Darwin has very properly, and very prudently 

 for himself, avoided opening the wider issue. 



