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fully for a First Cause, and a special Creator 

 than anything I could adduce. 



"The geographical distribution of organic beings 

 displays more fully the direct intervention of a 

 Supreme Intelligence in the plan of creation, 

 than any other adaptation in the physical world. 

 Generally the evidence of such an intervention is 

 derived from the benefits, material intellectual 

 and moral which man derives from nature 

 around him, and from the mental conviction 

 which consciousness imparts to him, that there 

 could be no such wonderful order in the universe 

 without an omnipotent ordainer of the whole. 

 This evidence, however plain to the Christian, 

 will never be satisfactory to the man of science 

 in that form. In these studies evidence must 

 rest upon direct observation and induction, just 

 as fully as mathematics claims the right to 

 settle all questions about measurable things. 

 There will be no scientific evidence of God's 

 working in nature, until naturalists have shewn 

 that the whole creation is the expression of a 

 thought, and not the product of physical agents. 

 Now, what stronger evidence of thoughtful adap- 

 tation can there be, than the various combinations 

 of similar, though specifically different, assemblages 

 of animals and plants, repeated all over the 

 world, under the most uniform and most diver- 

 sified circumstances? When we meet with pine 

 trees, so remarkable for their peculiarities, both 

 morphological and anatomical, combined with 

 beeches, birches, oaks, maples, etc., as well in 



