THE HORSE IN MOTION. 2 1 



"Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, 

 Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, 

 Lives through all life, extends through all extent, 

 Spreads undivided, operates unspent " ; 



who has endowed us with faculties to admire the beautiful, the good 

 and true, to know why so many things are as we see them, but none to 

 know how* 



Having given some of the reasons for his belief in the spiritual ori- 

 gin of the organic world, the writer claims his right, whenever he has 

 occasion in the following pages to do so, to speak, without danger of 

 being misunderstood, of design or contrivance in the same sense that 

 he would when referring to similar manifestations of design in a 

 humanly constructed machine. 



In a theory of evolution, as the expression of the method in crea- 

 tion, the writer has little doubt that the thoughtful mind will in 

 due time rest satisfied. 



* "The consciousness of an inscrutable power, manifested to us through all phenoinena, has 

 been j^rowing ever clearer, and must be eventually freed from its imperfections. The certainty 

 that, on the one hand, such a power exists, while on the other hand its nature transcends intui- 

 tion, and is beyond imagination, is the certainty towards which intelligence has from the first 

 been progressing." — Herbert Spenxer, First Principles, 2d edition, p. 108. 



" When the remarkable way in wliich structure and functions simultaneously change is borne 

 in mind, when those numerous instances in which nature has supplied similar wants by similar 

 means are remembered, when, also, all the wonderful contrivances of orchids, of mimicry, and 

 the strange complexity of certain instinctive actions, are considered, then the conviction forces 

 itself on many minds that the organic world is the expression of an intelligence of some kind. 

 . . . Organic nature then speaks clearly to many minds of the action of an intelligence resulting, 

 on the whole and in the main, in order, harmony, and beauty, yet of an intelligence the ways of 

 which are not as our ways." — St. G. Mivart, F. R. S., in Genesis of Species, pp. 272, 273. 



" There is something in organic progress which mere natural selection among spontaneous 

 variations will not account for; this something is that organizing intelligence which guides the 

 action of the inorganic forces, and forms structures which neither natural selection nor any 

 other unintelligent agency could form." — Murphy, Habil ami Intelligence, Vol. I. p. 348. 



