54 Natural Theology. 



3. We should expect that all things would show 

 design design of the same kind as the works of 

 man would exhibit, and never falling below them in 

 perfection. 



4. Man being confessedly the highest type of cre- 

 ation on the earth, we should expect that the world 

 would be, in a certain sense, created for him, or at 

 least that it would have more important relations to 

 him than to any other being that he would be the 

 central figure of creation. 



5. We should expect provision to be made not 

 only for the body, but for the mind ; or at least we 

 should expect as full provision to be made for all 

 the powers and faculties of man as has been made 

 for the lower animals ; this would involve provision 

 for his emotional nature and for unlimited improve- 

 ment in all his faculties. 



Finally, we should expect to find man and the 

 world fitted for each other, and the same fitness 

 running down through the whole order of nature ; 

 every animal, and plant, and grain of dust, showing 

 evidence of the work of a Being like man above 

 him indeed, but above him only in degree and con- 

 dition of existence. 



All this we should expect, if we had never given 

 one thought to the study of nature, but were now 

 coming to it for the first time to find proof in support 

 of the Bible. If we found all these conditions fully 

 met, we might well be satisfied with the proof. If 

 we failed to find them, we should doubt the record ; 

 because a book, though claiming to be from God, 



