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vocates of his theory deny, is all design. The 

 organs, even the most complicated and wonder- 

 ful, were not intended. They are said to be 

 due to the undirected and unintended opera- 

 tion of physical laws. This is Mr. Wallace's 

 argument. He endeavors to show that it is 

 unworthy of God that He should be supposed 

 to have contrived the mechanism of the or- 

 chids, as a mechanist contrives a curious puzzle. 

 We recently heard Prof Joseph Henry, in 

 a brief address, say substantially : " If I take 

 brass, gla,'ss, and other materials, and fuse 

 them, the product is a slag. This is what 

 physical laws do. If I take those same mate- 

 riaJis, and form them into a telescope, that is 

 v/hat mind does." This is the whole question 

 in a nutshell. That design implies an intelli- 

 gent designer, is a self evident truth. Every 

 man believes it ; and no man can practically 

 disbelieve it. Even those naturalists who 

 theoretically deny it, if they find in a cave so 

 simple a thing as a flint arrow-head, are as 

 sure that it was made by a man as they are 

 of their own existence. And yet they want us 

 to believe that an eagle's eye is the product of 

 blind natural causes. No combination of phys- 

 ical forces ever made a ship or a locomotive. 



