16 INTRODUCTION 



great man's profound scholarship, hence his words 

 ought to promote the study of Natural History. 

 Believing that the interpretations of the Creator's 

 plans in Nature are too frequently left to those 

 who disbelieve in the existence of an all-wise God, it 

 behoves those who see God in Nature to make the 

 fact known whether by lectures or in their writings, 

 and to point out to young people that all the 

 great problems in creation are the result of Divine 

 wisdom, and that what we do not now under- 

 stand, in that our mental powers are finite, will 

 be made clear in the future, for the finite cannot 

 fully comprehend the Infinite. 



In the following pages I simply state my own 

 impressions of what I see in Nature ; with the aid 

 of the microscope, the geologist's hammer, and 

 the eye of an obscure artist, I give expression to 

 the feelings Nature's wonders inspire in me. I 

 have neither the power nor the desire to follow 

 out all the intricacies of the theory of Evolution. 

 The interpreters, so-called, of the acute and well- 

 stored mind of Charles Darwin do not satisfy one 

 so much as Darwin himself. They often over- 

 look Darwin's own words: 'That probably all 

 the organic beings which have ever lived on this 

 earth have descended from some one primordial 



