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question, but appeal to him, and his answer is 

 given out in his last great work, the ablest volume 

 ever written in proof of the being of a personal 

 God from Nature the arguments all drawn from 

 the animal kingdom. Here, then, is the man 

 whose eye has seen more forms in Natural History 

 than any other that ever lived one of the greatest 

 naturalists in any age, the stamp of whose foot can 

 almost call up the forms from their sleep of ages in 

 their rocky beds, seeing in all the adaptations 

 overwhelming proof of mind. Here, then, we may 

 rest the argument for design, disregarding the at- 

 tacks which dreaming development theorists may 

 make. This argument will need no farther defence 

 till it is attacked by some naturalist of such vast 

 acquirements as to make him a foeman worthy of 

 Agassiz's steel. 



We are perfectly satisfied with the argument 

 from the mental constitution of man. But if the 

 inside of a watch prove design, does not the case, 

 and all the outer works, fitted to protect the inner 

 mechanism, and reveal its movements ? And if the 

 mind of man show design, does not the body, the 



