PREFACE. XV 



been founded. His book is a repository of 

 the most startling facts of this description. 



It is the mind thus stored with the 



choicest materials of the teleologist that 

 rejects teleology, seeking to refer these 

 wonders to natural causes. They illus- 

 trate, according to him, the method of 

 nature, not the 'technic' of a manlike 

 Artificer."* 



It is difficult to imagine how any one 

 who rejects " Teleology," or the Argu- 

 ment from Design, and accepts a Supreme 

 Creator, as we rejoice to know the late 

 Mr. Darwin cordially did during his 

 honoured lifetime, can explain, e.g., the 

 formation of the carboniferous era in the 

 geological strata in which it is found, 

 and its adaptation for the exclusive use of 

 man ; or the peculiar nature of the hive-lee, 

 which has been so ably interpreted by 

 Professor Tyndall in his Belfast Address ; 

 or the wonderful and complex structure of 



* Tyndall's "Belfast Address," in Fragments of 

 Science, p. 511. 



