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she is." 1 Observe how unjustifiable are the charges 

 which have been brought against him from a theo- 

 logical point of view. " Chose etrange ! " he ex- 

 claims afterwards, "Ton a confondu la montre avec 

 Thorloger, 1'ouvrage avec son auteur." 2 



In 1844 there was published in Edinburgh the 

 book entitled " Vestiges of the Natural History of 

 Creation," a work which appears to have been 

 treated with scant justice by any party. Dar- 

 winians have thought it necessary to disparage 

 both this work and Lamarck; while to those de- 

 fenders of Christianity who have so little faith in 

 its own strength that they think it cannot stand 

 without their coopering, and smell danger perpetu- 

 ally from afar, it mattered nothing that the author 

 of the "Vestiges," as well as Lamarck, emphatically 

 declared the necessity, according to his view, for a 

 Creator. He described himself modestly as " a 

 private person with limited opportunities of study"; 

 and in the wide area over which he ranges he some- 

 times seeks support from things which an expert in 

 this or that department would touch with a wary 

 hand ; but independence and originality, temper- 

 ance and frankness are qualities which he displays 

 in an unusual degree. 



The reasons which led him to think that spon- 



1 Op. cit. p. 66. 2 Op. cit. p. 95. 



