Scientific Sophisms. 269 



modifications of maternal and foetal structures, designed 

 with especial reference to the peculiar conditions of both 

 mother and offspring, afford, as it seems to me, irrefra- 

 gable evidence of Creative foresight" l 



"The parts of this apparatus cannot have produced 

 one another ; one part is in the mother, another part in 

 the young one ; without their harmony they could not be 

 effective ; but nothing except design can operate to make 

 them harmonious. They are intended to work together ; 

 and we cannot resist the conviction of this intention 

 when the facts first come before us." 2 



13. "A prospect-glass or a forceps is an 

 instrument ; they have each a final cause ; that 

 is, they were each made and adjusted for a 

 certain use. The use of the prospect-glass is to 

 assist the eye ; the use of the forceps is to assist 

 the hand. The prospect-glass was made the 

 better to- see ; the forceps, the better to grasp. 

 The use did not make these instruments ; they 

 were each .made for the ttse which use was 

 foreseen and premeditated in the mind of the 

 maker of them. We say of each of them 

 without a shadow of hesitation : IF THIS HAD 

 NOT FIRST BEEN A THOUGHT, IT COULD NEVER 

 HAVE BEEN A THING. Now, is the Eye or the 

 Hand an instrument adjusted to a certain use, 

 and thus revealing an antecedent purpose in 



1 Philosophical Transactions, 1834, Reade Lecture, p. 

 29. 

 * Phil. Inductive Sciences, vol. L p. 625. 



