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study of beings especially, meet us at 

 every step." 



10. Professor PRITCHARD, in his address 

 at the Brighton Congress of 1874, in speak- 

 ing of the irresistible proofs from teleology, 

 which satisfied the minds of such reasoners 

 as PALEY and BUTLER, CHALMERS and 

 WHEWELL, that He who " planted the ear r 

 and He who "made the eye," to use the 

 language of the Psalmist, was an Almighty 

 Designer and Creator, observes that this 

 argument, which may be well termed unan- 

 swerable, " has carried conviction, from the 

 time of Socrates to that of Cuvier, to the fore- 

 most minds of the human race, and found 

 almost its sole antagonists among spinners 

 of cobwebs and dreamers of dreams. . . . The 

 prints of Divine forethought, and the con- 

 victions they engender, are scattered over 

 the face of universal nature, and ploughed 

 into the very subsoil of the human mind." 

 Hence, he adds, "No chemist, with all his 

 wonderful art, has ever yet witnessed the 

 evolution of a living thing from those 

 lifeless molecules of matter and force." 



