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from the tigress except in the colour of the hide, far 

 less certainly than the horse differs from the ass ; 

 yet neither between these animals nor any other 

 species, in a wild state, does any sexual intercourse 

 ever take place, or is any offspring ever born. So 

 far as our experience extends the barriers between 

 the races are never passed. 



We must persist, although Mr. Darwin objects to 

 it, in pursuing an analogy between the works of Man 

 and those of the Deity. Immeasurably inferior as 

 are the productions of human invention, yet we 

 know beyond dispute that these are the productions 

 of Intelligence. If the word 'Intelligence' has a 

 meaning at all, a ship or a railway engine, or a 

 watch or an Electric Telegraph, are productions of 

 Intelligence ; yet although the highest efforts of the 

 human mind are immeasurably inferior to the works 

 of Providence, still are they not the same in nature, 

 and do they not only differ in degree ? Can we say 

 that a telescope is the work of design, while the eye 

 has been evolved by Natural Selection and produced 

 without an Intelligent Cause ? Is there nothing to 

 be accorded to that universal instinct of humanity 

 which turns to a Higher and unseen Power ? Is it 

 not much easier, much more credible, to believe in 



