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of an eye from a more simple organ was that 

 the ultimate eye — man's eye, for instance — 

 was to be a perfect optical instrument, and 

 that its perfection depended on the previous 

 design by the Creator, that at a certain period 

 it should appear in a body quite adapted for 

 its purposes. There is one question, — and not 

 the only one, but we must consider it as an 

 important question, — whether you can main- 

 tain a doctrine of evolution which shall not be 

 atheistical, and which shall admit the great ar- 

 gument of design ? That is one thing ; but the 

 next thing is, does such a doctrine as that ac- 

 cord either with revelation or with the facts of 

 science ? I do not believe that it can be made 

 to agree with what we believe to be the re- 

 vealed Word of God, and I do not believe that 

 it has in the least degree been proved that the 

 doctrine is consistent with sound science." 

 \ As to Mr. Darwin's theory, it is obvious 

 from the passages already quoted that he con- 

 siders its characteristic feature is not evolution, 

 nor even natural selection, but the denial of 

 teleology, or of intelligent control. Mr. Dar- 

 win admits the original creation of one or a 

 few forms of life ; and Mr. Mitchell, in his com- 

 ments on Mr. Warington's defence of his theory, 



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