1 6 THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES OF 



facts of organic nature necessarily fall into the 

 same logical category, with reference to any 

 question of design, as that of all or any other 

 series of facts in the physical universe. 



This being understood, I shall now proceed to 

 render an epitome of the evidence in favour of 

 organic evolution, and I shall do so by classifying 

 the arguments in a way tending to show their 

 distinct or independent character, and therefore 

 calculated to display the additional force which 

 they acquire from their cumulative nature. 



