56 DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION 



if we set together the various theories above enum- 

 erated, they form a coherent whole, and that 

 that whole expresses in other words what might 

 with considerable accuracy be described as a series 

 of special creations, since the Lawgiver whose 

 existence has to be postulated in order that the 

 system may work is, whatever periphrase may 

 be used, the God whom we reverence as the 

 Creator of all things. 



