68 A NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION. 



{' maze, to demonstrate the existence of a 

 First Cause as well as to disclose the pro- 

 ; cesses of creation ? 



Elusive Nature, with purpose inscrutable, 

 leaves in her operations no direct evidence 

 of external intervention : cause and effect 

 seem to follow each other automatically, but 

 here and there are hieroglyphs inscribed 

 on Nature's works that, rightly interpreted, 

 reveal an omniscient and omnipotent Creator. 



