136 EVOLUTION AND NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



the Divine control over the laws of nature is 

 more distinctly enunciated by those of Darwin's 

 disciples and critics who have approached the 

 subject from a more decidedly theistic stand- 

 point. But this control does not necessarily 

 imply Creation, in the received sense of the 

 word ; which, if matter be eternal, as it very 

 possibly is, can never take place at all. 



