274 Anima Mundi. 



masters of anatomical and physiological science, 

 from Galen to Cuvier, and from Harvey to 

 Owen, have been guided to their splendid dis- 

 coveries." But the irrepressible question, For 

 what ? is naturally followed by the further ques- 

 tion, From Whom? The measure of the confi- 

 dence with which Science assumes a use is the 

 measure of the confidence with which Religion 

 affirms an Author. "He that planted the ear, 

 shall He not hear ? Or He that made the eye, 

 shall He not see ? " This argument has been 

 esteemed unanswerable, not only by the most 

 masculine reasoners among Christian divines, 

 Barrow and Paley, Chalmers and Whewell : " it 

 has carried conviction, from the time of Socrates 

 to that of Cuvier, to the foremost minds of the 

 human race, and found almost its sole antago- 

 nists among spinners of cobwebs and dreamers 

 of dreams. . . . The prints of Divine fore- 

 thought, and the convictions they engender, are 

 scattered over the face of universal nature, and 

 ploughed into the very subsoil of the human 

 mind." 



16. To conclude. Modern Materialism then, 

 as expounded by its ablest advocates, whether 

 under the guise of ^Positive Agnosticism, or that 

 of Scientific Atheism, has no key to unlock the 



