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upon us at every step we make in scientific 

 investigations, and it is only because the subject 

 has been considered exhausted by the Bridgewater 

 treatises, that they are not brought more pro- 

 minently forward. It is a common remark, why 

 illustrate design it is as evident as the ground 

 we walk upon? To such a question the ap- 

 pearance of Mr. Darwin's book is a sufficient 

 answer. It is quite true that Mr. Darwin 

 remarks that when we talk of design, we merely 

 re-state his own arguments. I will leave the 

 intelligent reader to decide the truth of this 

 remark. The very essence of Mr. Darwin's 

 theory is utterly opposed to the operation of a 

 Great First Cause, acting by special creation 

 and p re-ordination. 



As I have remarked before, variation, if it 

 means anything, means a divergence from a 

 normal form. Mr. Darwin peoples the world 

 with beings by means of such an abnormity. 

 He makes the Deity create a form perfect, 

 which shall have a long 'race of perfect descen- 

 dants, and then he introduces imperfection as 

 the means by which new forms are made to 

 appear in the world. If this is by design he 

 must assume that the primary creation was im- 

 perfect, but endowed with an inherent power, 

 by which it could produce individuals having 

 within them the greater elements of perfection! 

 Or, to illustrate it by another example. He 

 must assume that every living thing on the 

 earth is imperfect, which, in fact, he does, when 



