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first ; it is a question of fact, and are his conclusions 

 supported by the evidence of facts ? It is here that, 

 as it appears to me, Mr. Darwin's long chain of hypo- 

 thesis and supposition commences which he sub- 

 stitutes for facts. I revert to a proposition which I 

 have laid down previously, that we can only proceed 

 by the light of our own faculties and powers, and by 

 the knowledge that we possess ; we cannot step 

 beyond that circle. Now all the innumerable forms 

 of Life, all the beings adapted to their several condi- 

 tions, all the means and appliances by which they 

 breathe, move, and have their being, appear to me 

 to be stamped with the unmistakeable character of 

 design. There must be the mind to conceive and 

 the power to execute, in order to produce the results 

 before us. I do not see how it is possible to deny 

 this ; if we examine any one of the works of Creation, 

 whether animate or inanimate, and if we analyse the 

 meaning of the word invention, I cannot understand 

 how it can be denied that all those vast and multi- 

 farious arrangements of parts to a whole, and of 

 means to an end, as exhibited in all the provinces, 

 whether of animate or inanimate existence, can fail 

 to bear out this truth. Mr. Darwin may say that 

 all these appearances are illusory and deceptive, that 



