BY MRS MILLER. Ixl 



exclusive good of another species, it would annihilate my 

 theory, for such could not have been produced through natu- 

 ral selection." Such a writer as Dr M'Cosh, we believe, could 

 meet this, and other positions of the same kind, of which vhis 

 ocok is full, both in their details and on more general grounds, 

 BO as to do good service to the cause of science and religion. 



But the most efficient protest against this blind exclu- 

 sive theory, which would inaugurate the reign of selfishness 

 throughout nature, is to be found in the human heart 

 Childhood recognises a Father in Heaven in the daily 

 blessings of its little life ; and the more enlightened the 

 mind unsophisticated by special theory becomes, the more 

 is it brought into harmony with this first lesson of the heart 

 As the eyes of the understanding are opened day by day, the 

 magnificent adaptations of Nature press forward evermore, as 

 parts of " one stupendous whole." 



The only theory this, capable of a true expansion from 

 the day when man enters upon this mortal scene, until that 

 upon which he bids it an everlasting farewell 



