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the objection seem to think, that in the boundless 

 profusion and multitudinous forms of inorganic and 

 organic nature, in the myriad worlds and systems 

 of worlds which people the illimitable realms of 

 space, there is more than God can provide for or 

 superintend. They forget that He, by His very 

 nature, is omniscient and omnipotent and omnipres- 

 ent; that for Him there is neither past nor future, 

 but that all is present and bare before His eyes ; 

 that far from being conditioned or limited in His 

 actions, He is absolutely independent and free from 

 all limitations ; that He is infinite in all His perfec- 

 tions and can attend to a thousand million systems 

 of worlds, and to each according to its proper needs, 

 as well as to a single crystal or a solitary flower ; 

 and that He can do this during countless aeons of 

 time as easily as He can for a single moment. We 

 have here, in a different guise, the old difficulty of 

 time and space in their relations to God and His 

 Divine operations. It is only necessary to form a 

 proper, if not an adequate conception, of God and 

 His attributes, to refer to the first principles of 

 psychology, in order to realize how puerile is the 

 objection, and what crass ignorance it betrays of 

 the fundamental elements of metaphysics and the- 

 ology on the part of the objector. 



Limitations of Specialists. 



In Darwin's case, one is not surprised that he 

 should, in good faith, urge the objection included in 

 the quotation just made from him, because he in- 

 forms us himself that he was mentally disqualified 



