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tions of the Creator, so that their thoughts 

 might be raised beyond the consideration 

 of dry lones." To which appeal Professor 

 Seeley candidly replied " If design in 

 anatomy were accepted, there would be 

 an end of all philosophic anatomy. The 

 whole science of Evolution had grown out of 

 the abandonment of this notion of design" 



Such was the blindness of scientific 

 infidelity towards the close of the 19th 

 century, unable or unwilling to admit 

 the force of teleology, or the argument 

 from design, as a sure proof of the 

 existence of an all-wise Supreme Creator. 

 He who is unable to admit the over- 

 whelming evidence in proof of an 

 Omnipotent Designer, as witnessed, for 

 example, in the creation of the carbonife- 

 rous era solely for the use of man long 

 ages after it was made, or the formation 

 of that complex organ called "the 

 eye," whether of man or beast, but 

 prefers to attribute them to his ideal 

 deity of Force, or Matter, or the fortuitous 

 concourse of atoms, is guilty of an " ab- 



