164 ANALOGY NOT IDENTITY. 



in the work entitled * The Vestiges of the Natural 

 History of the Creation/ has arisen from its author 

 having, in many instances, assumed analogy to be 

 a proof of identity. There is an analogy between 

 the human embryo and the monad of the volvox, 

 in that each consists of simple cells ; but there is 

 no more identity between the human and the poly- 

 gastrian cells than between the perfect man and the 

 mature animalcule." 



Nor is this all ; the notion of " the stages of ad- 

 vance being in all cases very small," is as obviously 

 false as every other part of the theory. The differ- 

 ence between the organization of reptiles and birds, 

 and again of birds and mammals, is manifestly 

 great ; nor are there any other intermediate classes of 

 organized beings to diminish, much less fill up, the 

 vast hiatus. Incontrovertible facts declare, there- 

 fore, the utter fallacy of the pretence of a gradual 

 development, and that the power does not exist, nor 

 ever yet did, in which it has been supposed to 

 begin. 



x " Proud, scornful man ! thy soaring wing 



Would hurry towards Infinity : 

 And yet the vilest, meanest thing 



Is too sublime, too deep for thee ; 

 And all thy vain imagining 



Lost in the smallest speck we see. 

 It must be so : for He, even He 



Who worlds created, form'd the worm : 

 He pours the dew, who fill'd the sea ; 



Breathes from the flower, who rules the storm : 

 Him we may worship, not conceive ; 



See not and hear not, but adore." 



