2 2 Darwinism and Deity. 



man brain before birth, which resemble successively the 

 brain of various orders of animals from the lower, up. 



In the same way, it has been observed that in many 

 animals, including man, there are rudimentary parts 

 which are of no use, but serve only as reminders of 

 earlier and preceding species to which such parts were 

 important, — -just as the form of the earliest metal im- 

 plements (and the form of an implement bears the 

 same relation to the inventor that created things do to 

 the creator) retained peculiarities which were of use in 

 stone implements, though of no use in the new material, 

 metal. 



This whole theory, however, is falling, or perhaps has 

 fallen, into disfavor among men of science. The main 

 fact on which it rests as a theory of science, is now said 

 not to exist. It is generally denied that there has been 

 any break in the continuity of life. It is said that the 

 great changes which have visited the earth's surface were 

 not due to catastrophes which destroyed life, leaving a 

 void to be filled by renewed acts of creation ; but were 

 wrought by causes which are still in operation. 



Strata are still forming at the bottom of lakes and seas. 

 Rocks are still cracking and crumbling into soil. Hills 

 are washing away ; rivers are still cutting channels, and 

 forming alluvium and deltas. Land is still rising and 

 sinking. Venice has sunk fifteen inches since the 

 Doges' palace was built. Crete has tilted up since the 

 days of the Roman Empire. The ports on its western 

 shore have risen twenty feet out of the water, while the 

 cities on its eastern coast are submerged. The penin- 

 sula of Norway and Sweden has been rising and tilting 



