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Scri]3tures. (2.) It does not meet the relig- 

 ious and moral necessities of our nature. It 

 renders prayer irrational and inoperative. It 

 makes it vain for a man in any emergency to 

 look to God for help. (3.) It is inconsistent 

 with obvious facts. We see around us innu- 

 merable evidences of the constant activity of 

 mind. This evidence of mind and of its opera- 

 tions, according to Lord Brougham and Dr. 

 Whewell, is far more clear than that of the ex- 

 istence of matter and of its forces. If one or 

 the other is to be denied, it is the latter rather 

 than the former. Paley indeed says, that if the 

 construction of a watch be an undeniable evi- 

 dence of design it would be a still more wonder- 

 ful manifestation of skill, if a watch could be 

 be made to produce other watches ; and, it may 

 be added, not only other watches, but all kinds 

 of time-pieces in endless variety. So it has 

 been asked, if man can make a telescope, why 

 cannot God make a telescope which produces 

 others like itself? This is simply asking, 

 whether matter can be made to do the work 

 of mind ? The idea involves a contradiction. 

 For a telescope to make a telescope, supposes 

 it to select copper and zinc in due proportions 

 and fuse them into l)rass ; to fashion that brass 



