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governing power directing the whole becomes more 

 imperative in proportion to its complication. If he 

 excludes all reference to the Intelligent First Cause, 

 then this chain of totally distinct organisations 

 issuing one out of another becomes quite incompre- 

 hensible. Unless we suppose design and a presiding 

 direction, nothing but chaos could result. 



Secondly, I do not understand how Mr. Darwin 

 can support his system by the evidence of fact. He 

 supposes that in an incalculable number of ages one 

 organism gradually melts into another, but he no- 

 where can point out any one case in which such a 

 transformation has taken place. Slight variations in 

 some of the domestic animals, which he adduces as 

 proofs, seem wholly insufficient, since they are only 

 to be found among those slight varieties who freely 

 cohabit and breed together. Where these slight 

 varieties assume a more fixed character it is always 

 in obedience to the subordinate but still Intelligent 

 Will of Man. Mr. Darwin's whole arguments seem 

 to be confined to showing that different species 

 resemble each other very nearly and are separated 

 only by apparently slight lines of demarcation ; and 

 then he assumes that these lines are in the course of 

 ages overstepped and new species thus fashioned, 



