INTRODUCTION vii 



Creation deals with questions as to the ground of being 

 of the elements themselves. Are they self -existent ? Have 

 they existed from eternity ? Have they known a begin- 

 ning? Have they been evolved from simpler primals? 

 Have the primal elements, wherever they may lie, been 

 created ? It is, as we have said, our purpose to show that 

 to a creating hand their existence is due. But first we 

 must consider the doctrine of signs and signs of mind. 



PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 



THE author of this work avails himself of the oppor- 

 tunity of a second edition being called for to make a few 

 remarks. 



He feels exceedingly thankful for the favour with 

 which it has been received. Critics have welcomed it 

 in terms most gratifying, and have presented it as a com- 

 plete answer to Haeckel, whose works so much is being 

 done to spread over the country. 



Sir John Herschel propounded the idea that atoms of 

 matter have the characteristics of manufactured articles. 

 In April 1873, the present author contributed an article 

 to the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, in which 

 it was argued from the relations subsisting between 

 material elements and perceiving natures, that they were 

 made for each other. In September of the same year, 

 Professor Clerk Maxwell read his famous paper before the 

 British Association, and at the close maintained that atoms 

 of Hydrogen being in all respects the same, and measured 

 to the nicety of standard measures, have their existence 

 due to mind. Lord Kelvin's letter to the Times shows 



