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So the structure of the eye might be understood 

 by an anatomist, and its evidence of design and the 

 mechanical skill manifested be appreciated by an 

 optician, though he knew nothing of the chemical 

 nents that composed it, and had never heard of 

 atomic weights or chemical formulas. 



Hut the deeper we go in our study of Nature, the 

 more perfect the proof becomes for the existence 

 of (i)d, and the more full are the revelations of His 

 character. And by the very process of proving 

 His br: learn His character, for we only 



know that He is. in the study of nature, by learn- 

 what he is. There is now no field of physical 



arch in which the knowledge is more exact 

 than in chemistry ; and there is no department of 

 that shows more plainly the being and cha- 

 racter of God. The proof may not be so tangible 



ID some of ti ntrivances found in the 



animal and vegetable kingdoms ; and bein^of a more 

 lal character, it may not be so satisfactory to all 

 men. lint every argument here has the advantage 

 of not being weakened by any development theo- 

 ries. Matter remains as it was. Chemical affinity 

 is the same now that it was when the foundations 

 of the earth were laid. There is in it no volition, 

 no organic law of development. There is no possi- 

 ble indication of any change in the quantity of matter, 

 or in its laws of combination. 



When we consider that the living species of ani- 

 mals now known number half a million at least, and 

 the species of plants are numbered by hundreds of 



