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works involving arrangements, proportionings, and calcu- 

 lations, as in the great railway bridges over the Tay and 

 Forth. There is no labour on earth that does not need 

 an eye to see and a mind to think. There is no work, 

 nor device, nor trade, nor profession, that does not 

 require a great amount of teaching and practical training 

 to ensure an approach to perfection. Ordered work 

 cannot be done save by trained intelligence equal to its 

 production. 



The signs of mind in nature go far beyond those which 

 appear in the works of man. They are on a greater scale. 

 They cover vaster fields. They are more wonderful, more 

 brilliant, and demand immeasurably greater power of mind, 

 than any produced by human intelligence. 



There are many clear signs of mind in the dispositions 

 of matter and in its organisations. Linnaeus, being rallied 

 by a friend on his devotion to science, laid his hand on 

 the ground and said that underneath it there was as 

 much as would worthily occupy a human mind for a 

 lifetime in becoming acquainted with it. The earth is 

 filled, and overflows with the glories of mind. Every 

 blade of grass beams with it. Every common bush is 

 afire with it. The fowls of the air, the fish of the sea, 

 the beasts of the field glow with the brightness of its 

 shining. Man is its crowning splendour. The heavens 

 declare its glory. Sun, moon, and stars are radiant with 

 it, with a brilliancy eclipsing their own. We are encom- 

 passed by it as by a sea of lights. We are steeped in it, 

 bathed in it. In this field the natural theologian has 

 at his service, open to every eye, within reach of the 

 knowledge of every intelligent mind, a great variety of 

 organisations rich in complex and perfect order, and 

 marvellously adapted for their place in nature. 



In the argument before us, we have not the facts on 



