94 EVOLUTION AND NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



ancestry. The comparative anatomy and em- 

 bryology of man is a subject of the greatest 

 interest, of which we know comparatively little 

 at present, but fuller investigations will 

 doubtless throw a flood of light on many 

 questions of this nature. 



Some of the forms of Homology which we 

 have been discussing, and others which might 

 have been mentioned, have been accounted for 

 by supposing that the Creator laid down a uni- 

 form plan, upon which all organisms have been 

 constructed. But to carry out such a system to 

 the extent to which Homology occurs in nature 

 would be wholly inexplicable, if not absurd, on 

 the theory that every organism has been created 

 independently for its place in nature ; whereas 

 on the theory of Evolution, Homology becomes 

 intelligible, and does not lead us, as in the 

 former case, to form palpably unworthy ideas 

 of the Almighty. Again, this uniformity of 

 plan, though adhered to in many cases where 

 it appears wholly unnecessary, is not always 

 carried out, where no reason can be discovered 

 why it should not be, which still more con- 

 clusively displays the fallacy of the whole 

 theory of Special Creation. 



