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itself from the Thames to Melbourne, without ship- 

 wrights, captain or crew. 



We must also remember that Life in its various 

 forms is not the whole, but only a part of the works 

 of Creation. These are certainly not all to be 

 accounted for by Natural Selection ; but if Intelli- 

 gence is to be traced in any one of them, then the 

 existence of Intelligence as a governing and creating 

 power is established, and it is almost self-evident 

 that the mighty power which is proved in any one 

 operation of Creation must pervade the whole. It 

 is not Natural Selection which guides^ the Electric 

 fluid it is not Natural Selection which dispenses 

 Light and Heat it is not Natural Selection which 

 has created and upholds the Solar System. If the 

 existence of the Grreat First Cause be shown any- 

 where else, we may surely credit it with having also 

 originated the phenomena of Life. 



I know not how far Mr. Darwin may carry his 

 views, or by what process of reasoning he may 

 reconcile his own theories with any recognition of a 

 Divine authorship ; he seems faintly and obscurely 

 to intimate the possibility of such an agreement, 

 and he quotes his correspondent before referred to 

 as entertaining such an opinion. It appears to me, 



