118 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



asks, " Why am I to limit the work of the Cre- 

 ator to the simultaneous or successive creations 

 of ten or twelve commencements of the ani- 

 mate creation ? Why, simply for the purpose 

 of evading the evidence of design as manifested 

 in the adajDtation of all the organs of every 

 animate creature to its wants, which can only 

 be done by so incredible an hypothesis as 

 that of Mr. Darwin. I say fearlessly, that any 

 hypothesis which requires us to admit that the 

 formation of such complex organs as the eye, 

 the ear, the heart, the brain, with all their 

 marvellous structures and mechanical adapta- 

 tions to the wants of the creatures possessing 

 them, so perfectly in harmony, too, with the 

 laws of inorganic matter, affords no evidence 

 of design ; that such structures could be built 

 up by gradual chance improvements, perpetu- 

 ated by the law of transmission, and perfected 

 by the destruction of cr-eatures less favorably 

 endowed, is so incredible, that I marvel to find 

 any thinking man capable of adopting it for a 

 single moment." It is useless to multiply quo- 

 tations. Darwinism is never brought up either 

 formally or incidentally, that its exclusion of 

 design in the formation of living organisms 

 is not urged as the main objection against the 

 whole theorv. 



