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of words to see the designer of each living form in the 

 living form itself, than to look for its designer in some 

 other place or person. 



Thus we have a third alternative presented to us. 



Mr. Charles Darwin and his followers deny design, 

 as having any appreciable share in the formation of 

 organism at all. 



Paley and the theologians insist on design, but upon 

 a designer outside the universe and the organism. 



The third opinion is that suggested in the first instance, 

 and carried ont to a very high degree of development 

 by Buffon. It was improved, and, indeed, made almost 

 perfect by Dr. Erasmus Darwin, but too much neg- 

 lected by him after he had put it forward. It was bor- 

 rowed, as I think we may say with some confidence, from 

 Dr. Darwin by Lamarck, and was followed up by him 

 ardently thenceforth, during the remainder of his life, 

 though somewhat less perfectly comprehended by him 

 than it had been by Dr. Darwin. It is that the design 

 which has designed organisms, has resided within, and 

 been embodied in, the organisms themselves. 



With but a very little change in the present signifi- 

 cation of words, the question resolves itself into this. 



Shall we see God henceforth as embodied in all living 

 forms ; as dwelling in them ; as being that power in 

 them whereby they have learnt to fashion themselves, 

 each one according to its ideas of its own convenience, 

 and to make itself not only a microcosm, or little 

 world, but a little unwritten history of the universe 

 from its own point of view into the bargain ? From 

 everlasting, in time past, only in so far as life has 



