CONCLUSION. 



admiration was the outcome of a hundred 

 masons working without design, instructions, 

 or concert, common-sense would regard the 

 statement as an insult to the understanding. 



But Darwin asks us to believe that organ- 

 isms, far more elaborate and complicated than 

 any work of man's hands, are the outcome of 

 an analogous process. 



Common-sense will prefer to believe, that 

 as the great works of man had their 

 architect, master - builder, and artificers, so 

 also had the infinitely more wonderful works 

 of Nature their Architect and Master-builder, 

 whose artificers we call the forces of Nature. 



According to the Darwinian conception, 

 Nature failed at first to produce perfect or 

 at least highly organised animals, and their 

 perfection or higher specialisation came by 

 secondary causes, each working independ- 

 ently and fortuitously, without design 

 control or definite object. We could as 

 easily believe that a box full of miniature 

 bricks persistently shaken through a geol- 

 ogical epoch would form themselves into a 

 miniature cathedral. 



To Darwin's mind " it accords better with 

 what we know of the laws impressed on 

 matter by the Creator, that the production 

 and the extinction of the past and present 



