NATURAL THEOLOGY. 79 



In the last place : What do these appetencies 

 mean when applied to plants ? I am not able to 

 give a signification to the term which can be trans- 

 ferred from animals to plants ; or which is com- 

 mon to both. Yet a no less successful organiza- 

 tion is found in plants, than what obtains in ani- 

 mals. A solution is wanted for one as well as the 

 other 



Upon the whole, after all the schemes and 

 struggles of a reluctant philosophy, the necessary 

 resort is to a Deity. The marks of design are too 

 strong to be gotten over. Design must have had 

 a designer. That designer must have been a per- 

 son. That person is God. 



