ORG A NIC E VOL UTION. 8 7 



highly organised being in creation of the next 

 most highly organised. And if we reject the 

 natural explanation of hereditary descent from 

 a common ancestry, we can only suppose that 

 the Deity, in creating man, took the most 

 scrupulous pains to make him in the image 

 of the ape. This, I say, is a matter of un- 

 deniable fact — supposing the creation theory true 

 — and as a matter of fact, therefore, it calls 

 for explanation. Why should God have thus 

 conditioned man as an elaborate copy of the 

 ape, when we know from the rest of creation 

 how endless are His resources in the invention 

 of types ? 



I present the' matter thus to show that even 

 the weight of sentiment is not all on the side 

 of special creation. Look on this picture and 

 on this : — 



The Creator has exhibited the extraordinary 

 and unaccountable design of casting the complex 



