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with a great number of skilled people in it has men of 

 different trades and professions, one to brew and one to 

 bake, one to dig the ground, and to grow cotton and flax, 

 and another to weave them into garments. 



This will give you a very small glimpse of some of the 

 apparent anomalies which are explained by the theory of 

 natural selection. The subject is so difficult to understand 

 thoroughly, that you must not expect to have more than a 

 slight notion of it, and must be content for the present with 

 knowing that our greatest living naturalists, who have made 

 a careful study of living and fossil animals and plants, all 

 believe it to be true. 



And as this is so, it is extremely foolish to be prejudiced 

 against it, as some people are, by the idea that animals 

 formed in this way can be less God's creation than if they 

 were made in any other way. The whole history of science 

 teaches us that men, in all ages, have constantly taken false 

 alarm when it has been shown that God's ways are not our 

 ways, and that the universe is governed by far wider and 

 more constant laws than we had imagined in our little 

 minds. But in the same way as the planets are none the 

 less held in God's hand because we now know that it is by 

 the law of gravitation that He governs their movements, so 

 every plant and animal must be equally His creation, in 

 whatever way they have been developed. Above and be- 

 yond all these laws which we can trace there remains -ever 

 the One Great and Supreme Creator whom Anaxagoras wor- 

 shipped instead of the heathen gods of Greece (see p. 1 4), 

 when his fellow-countrymen condemned him as an unbe- 

 liever because he believed not in many, but in One God. 



A humble, earnest spirit seeking knowledge must indeed 

 find in modern science a deep revelation of the Unity a'nd 

 Unchangeableness of the Creator. Instead of many widely 



