NATURAL HISTORY 



home of that mind, and the thousand contrivances 

 in nature for keeping that body with all its 

 complicated machinery in tune? If, then, we grant 

 personality to the mind of man, we may, so far as 

 the argument is concerned, believe with some of the 

 old philosophers, that mind to be eternal, uncreated ; 

 but the fitting of a body to the wants of that mind, 

 would prove personality on the part of the creator 

 of the body. There are those who believe that the 

 Saviour of the world was not man in any true sense, 

 that the divine, eternal, uncreated Mind was united 

 to a human body. There is no absurdity in this 

 view. And if every man were considered the same, 

 the body, in its adaptations to the mind, would 

 still require a creator equal in kind to the mental 

 part provided for. 



But among the rocks of the earth has Natural 

 History laid a foundation for Natural Religion, one 

 that can never be weakened, but is becoming more 

 firm by each new discovery. This it does by carry- 

 ing us back to the beginning of all organic life, and 

 by pointing out, on the rocky chart, where each 

 new form commenced its course. The infidel argu- 



