19 The Development Theory. 



A piece of granite from the hills, no more 

 than those hills themselves, can now be re- 

 garded as a. thing created into its present 

 form by an instantaneous exercise of divine 

 power. If you examine it closely you will find 

 it to be a combination of three other combina- 

 tions. It is made up of quartz, feldspar and 

 mica; the quartz is a combination of silicium 

 and oxygen; the feldspar is a combination of 

 silicic acid and aluminum with either potash 

 or soda; the mica is a combination of silicate 

 alumina, and for a third element, either pot- 

 ash, soda, magnesia, lime, or even iron. 

 Surely, here is development in its most 

 marked form; development through combina- 

 tions complex, and varied to present results. 

 And this without at all carrying the argument 

 to the molecules of a stage anterior to these 

 or to the atoms of the still more remote stage; 

 and yet the changes this material underwent 

 in these preceding stages are as truly a part of 

 the creation of your piece of granite as the 

 combination of its quartz, feldspar and mica. 

 How plainly then is it true that the creation 



