LIFE ON THE EARTH. 45 



To look through Nature up to Nature's God, 



with reverential thoughts of the GREAT MAKER. No 

 sincere inquirer for truth will be likely to expect 

 success in the search, 



unde queat res quaeque creari, 



Et quo quseque modo fiant, opera sine Divom ; 



and no one who has advanced so far in Philosophy 

 as to have thought of one thing in relation to an- 

 other will ever be satisfied with Laws which had no 

 Author, Works which had no Maker, Co-ordinations 

 which had no Designer. In this as in other cases, 



An undevout philosopher is mad. 

 SYSTEM OF LIFE COEVAL WITH MAN. 



The Living creation then, as we see it, is found 

 to exist only in a fabric of certain sorts and certain 

 combinations of matter, in the presence of the atmo- 

 sphere, subject to continual loss and restoration of 

 parts, suffering death in every individual, and renewed 

 by birth of other individuals; adapted to the ele- 

 ments of water, land, and air; limited by tempera- 

 ture and physical conditions; called into being at 

 certain points of origin, and spread over certain areas 

 of occupation. 



Thus the visible creation presents itself as a cal- 



