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The tlieist, having arrived at his theistic convictions from 

 quite other sources than a consideration of zoological or 

 botanical plienomena, returns to the consideration of such 

 j)henoniena and views them in a theistic light, without of 

 course asserting or implying that such light has been de- 

 rived from t/ienij or that there is an obligation of reason so 

 to view tijcni on the part of others who refuse to enter upon 

 or to acce])t those otlier sources whence have been derived 

 the tlieistic convictions of the theist. 



IJut Mr. Darwin is not guilty of arguing against meta- 

 physical ideas on physical grounds only, for he employs 

 very distinctly metaphysical ones ; namely, his conceptions 

 of the nature and attributes of the First Cause. But what 

 conceptions does he offer us ? Nothing but that low an- 

 thropomorphism which, unfortunatel}', he so often seems to 

 treat as the necessary result of Theism. It is again the 

 dununy, helpless and deformed, set up merely for the purpose 

 of being knocked down. 



tending toward certain high elementary conceptions which are tlie repre- 

 Bcntatives of tlio unity of the great archetypal ideas according to which 

 the whole systeiu is arranged. Inductive conceptions, very i)artially and 

 imperfectly realized and apprehended by human intellect, are the expo- 

 nents in our minds of these great principles of Nature." 



" All science is but the partial reflection, in the reason of man ^ of the 

 great all-pervading reason of the universe. And thus the tinity of science 

 is the reflection of the xinUy of Nature, and of the unity of that supreme 

 reason and intelligence which pervades and rules over Nature, and from 

 whence all reason and all science is derived." (Unity of Worlds, P^ssay 

 i., § ii. ; Unity of Sciences, pp. 79, 81.) Also he quotes from Oersted's 

 "Soul in Nature" (pp. 12, 10, 18, 87, 02, y77). "If the laws of reason 

 did not exist in Nature, we should vainly attempt to force them upon 

 her: if the laws of Nature did not exist in our reason, we should not be 

 able to comprehend them." ..." We find an agreement between our 

 reason and works which our reason did not produce." ..." All exist- 

 ence is a dominion of reason." " The laws of Nature are laws of reason, 

 and altogether form an endless unity of reason ; . . . one and the same 

 throughout the universe." 



