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sent varied shape necessarily followed, then his cor- 

 respondent or Mr. Darwin himself must believe one 

 of two things : either that the Deity created these 

 four or five primordial forms, ignorant of the con- 

 sequences which would result from them, or that he 

 did so cognizant of the germs that they enclosed and 

 foreseeing or predestining their ultimate results. 

 But if the latter conclusion is adopted, then all the 

 works of Creation follow from an Almighty and 

 Omniscient First Cause just as much and as com- 

 pletely as if they had emanated more directly and 

 immediately from His hand. * 



A clock or watchmaker who makes a watch is 

 doubtless an ingenious mechanician, but one who 

 could contrive a machine which by turning a handle 

 would produce watches as complete as those made 

 by hand, would doubtless be a far more skilful 

 mechanist than the first ; but the watches made by 

 the machine would be quite as much the work of 

 the inventor as those made by his hand alone ; they 

 would equally be the products of his inventive 

 faculties, and the only difference would be that it 

 would require a higher order of inventive faculty 

 and more elaborate execution in the case of the 

 watches produced by the action of the machine. 



