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" wonderful works " of Nature. Ex nihilo they all have come. 

 All are the result of innumerable millions upon millions of blunders. 

 It is they that have filled the world with what you call the 

 wonders and beauties of Creation. Of course. 



I believe that Natural Selection is infinitely better adapted to 

 the more complex " conditions of life," and " of far higher 

 workmanship" than anything man can produce ; and by "Natural 

 Selection " I mean the " sequence of events." Thus, you see, 

 events are workers, and causes are produced by results. This, 

 even common sense will at once tell you. 



I believe that though Professor Phillips has said that the 

 human mind could not, even with the materials, have predicted 

 the complete arrangements we find in such adaptations as the 

 various kinds of tails hi the falcons and the swallows, the 

 woodpeckers and the divers, yet that a monad could have a 

 capability for the development of all such in the " sequence of 

 events." He may say what he likes. I hold it to be so, that is 

 sufficient for me. Let it suffice, I repeat, for you. 



I believe that for the formation of the most complex form, it 

 is not necessary to know how to make it. That being so, because 

 I say it, there cannot be supposed to be any All-Wise 

 CREATOE. Q.E.D. 



I believe that by Natural Selection pairs of creatures appeared 

 at the same tune suited to each other (and to my theory). How 

 kind of them. 



I believe that it must have been so, because my theory would 

 break down if it were to be supposed that in any number of 

 millions of ages only one individual elaborated a tail, or a wing, 

 as the case may be. No ; there must have been two " worked 

 out " for each other " just in the nick of tune," as the saying is. 



I believe that Natural Selection is the Great CREATOR. And 

 why not ? Ipsi dixi. How do you get over that ? 



I believe that there was no intelligence presiding over the 

 plan of Nature. Cuvier, indeed, says that there was, but what 

 do I care for Cuvier ? 



I believe in many " beautiful contrivances," though I do not 

 believe in any contriver. It suits me to do so, and that is all 

 I have to say. 



