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useful flora of Europe and Western Asia. This not 

 obscurely indicates the preparing of a place for man, 

 and the removal out of his way of obstacles and 

 hindrances. That these changes had a relation to 

 the advent of man, neither theist nor evolutionist can 

 doubt, and it may be that we shall some day find 

 that this relation implies the existence of a creative 

 law intelligible by us; but while we fail to perceive 

 any link of direct causation between the changes in 

 the lower world, and the introduction of our race, we 

 cannot help seeing that correlation which implies a 

 far-reaching plan, and an intelligent design. 



Finally, the evolutionist picture wants some of the 

 fairest lineaments of humanity, and cheats us with a 

 semblance of man without the reality. Shave and 

 paint your ape as you may, clothe him and set him 

 up upon his feet, still he fails greatly of the " human 

 form divine;" and so it is with him morally and 

 spiritually as well. We have seen that he wants the 

 instinct of immortality, the love of God, the mental 

 and spiritual power of exercising dominion over the 

 earth. The very agency by which he is evolved is of 

 itself subversive of all these higher properties. The 

 struggle for existence is essentially selfish, and there- 

 fore degrading. Even in the lower animals, it is a 

 false assumption that its tendency is to elevate; for 

 animals when driven to the utmost verge of struggle 

 for life, become depauperated and degraded. The 

 dog which spends its life in snarling contention with 

 its fellow-curs for insufficient food, will not be a noble 



