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certain extent the course of nature. But here 

 another law steps in protecting the different races of 

 living beings from that confusion which would result 

 if such power had been left unrestricted. Some of 

 the domestic animals, of different though very similar 

 organisations, are found, under the direction of man, 

 to be capable of sexual intercourse and of bringing 

 forth an offspring ; but here steps in another law of 

 nature, a sort of second safeguard or barrier erected 

 against the indefinite multitude of species : the issue 

 of these connections is always barren. Does not this 

 argue foresight in the Great Law Giver ? How could 

 Natural Selection alone create such prospective limi- 

 tation ? But if a future defect in the machinery for 

 the renewal of Life is thus foreseen and guarded 

 against, then there must have been a Being able 

 to foresee and competent to provide the remedy. 

 Natural Selection cannot foresee ; the very hypothesis 

 itself denies it such a power. 



How different do these philosophers argue in the 

 case of Providence and of Man. The attention of 

 Geologists has of late been directed to the discovery 

 of a large number of stone spear-heads at a very 

 great depth in the marshes near Amiens. These 

 have occasioned quite a revolution in the previously 



