ARGUMENTATIVE. 63 



We cannot see the force that causes vari- j 

 ation in the embryo, but neither can we see the 

 force that causes the grain of seed to germin- 

 ate, or that brings the apple to the ground. 



But it may be argued, that as it is an 

 admitted fact that types more or less highly 

 specialised succeeded each other, the Super- 

 natural Power that caused the variation 

 must have intervened after the simpler forms 

 of life came into existence, and for that 

 reason the intervention was miraculous. 



But although Evolution, so far as we know, 

 ceased when man, the most highly specialised 

 organism, appeared is there any ground for 

 assuming, that the Power that brought into 

 existence simple forms of life, did not also 

 evoke the more highly specialised types that 

 succeeded them, or that organisms when 

 called into being were not, and are not still, 

 sustained during life and reproduced by the 

 Power that evoked them ? 



Whence or how comes the inexhaustible 

 supply of force that sustains and renews all 

 animated Nature ? 



The Darwinian problem Given the exist- 

 ence of simple forms of life, how were com- 

 plex forms evolved from them? assumes that 

 there was a fundamental difference between 

 the coming into existence of simple and of 

 complex organisms, and that life exists 



