102 Remarks on the Theories of PT. ir. 



Jerome by Dominichino were the works of the paint 

 and the brushes which delineated them, or even of 

 the hand which used these instruments, and not of 

 the minds of Eaphael and Dominichino. The works 

 of Nature all imply design ; and the secondary 

 agencies evoked by Mr. Darwin can have no design, 

 and must therefore be subordinate to some Higher 

 Power that has. The belief in the agency of a Great 

 Intelligent Omnipotent First Cause fully satisfies the 

 understanding, and alone enables the mind to repose 

 in the certainty of conviction. Faith in the existence 

 of a direct though invisible communication is an 

 essential part of our moral nature : it is interwoven 

 with all our best hopes and highest aspirations, and 

 is necessary at once to happiness and to virtue. 



To sum up my objections to Mr. Darwin's theory, 

 First, he either does or he does not refer to the 

 agency of an Intelligent and Omnipotent First Cause. 

 If he does so assign it, then all the complications of 

 his machinery, his Natural Selection, his Sexual 

 Selection and Evolution, by which he accounts for 

 all the endless variety in the forms of organic Life, 

 are only so many additional difficulties in the work 

 accomplished by the Deity. It becomes the more 

 necessary than ever to believe in design ; because a 



