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subordinate to will, and the attributes of that will 

 showing us the Deity as a personal and super- 

 intending God. Were controversialists entitled 

 thus to assume that the human faculties can pro- 

 nounce upon one subject in their own way, but 

 are struck powerless on approaching another, 

 tending to an opposite conclusion, there w^ould, 

 of course, be an end of all argument. But even 

 that exercise of the faculties which the reviewer 

 admits of for his own purpose, by no means goes 

 to the conclusion at which he arrives. He refers 

 but to a small portion of the divine works, when 

 he speaks of " organic structures created in suc- 

 cessive times and adapted to the changing condi- 

 tions of the earth." He cannot be permitted to 

 assume that he has proved these to have been 

 produced by special fiats or any other mode of 

 special exertion, " in conformity with changed 

 conditions :" on the contrary, his proposition is dis- 

 proved, for w^e hear in many instances of conditions 

 suitable for new beings, countless ages before the 

 suitable beings make their appearance, showing 

 that such was not the principle to which we are 

 solely to look for the genesis of animals. But, 

 even though he were more successful on this point, 

 he would still be required to show his theory of 



