11 fV ft. cox BOMPAS, P.G.S., ETC., ON EVOLUTION AND DESIGN. 



S'riy theu that all the varied aud complicated phenomena of 

 nature around us, that we ourselves are the outcome of the prim- 

 ordial " structureless germs," the atoms, thiose " small incom- 

 pressible spheres of our " poet-philosopher." If we are what we are, 

 and if other things are what they are, it is because all that we and 

 they have become was wrapped up in a germ, v/as in it in the 

 beginning, was involved, and to my mind Evolution can have no 

 explanation save on the assumption of an Involver Who has 

 planned all from the first, for all that we see implies Thought, 

 Intelligence, and Design, and therefore a Personal God. 



Professor H. Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc, writes : — 

 The chief merit, in my judgment, of Mr. Gr. Cox Bompas's in- 

 teresting paper ("Evolution and Design ") consists in showing that 

 both life and circumstance are inexplicable apart fi^om design and 

 will in the Creator. I note that the author speaks of the fall of a 

 die being the result of " chance :" this is hardly scientific. That 

 fall is as truly the effect, or result, of law as is the earth's 

 i-evolution round the sun, and can be calculated mathematically. 

 With regard to "chance" it has been well remarked that it is 

 " an expression which in science can only stand for a cause not 

 yet discovered." 



