148 PROFESSOR EDWARD HULL, LL.D., F.R.S. 
verts them into beasts of burden,* has morally degraded his 
being below that of the brute creation around him. History 
abounds in examples of cruelty and baseness amongst men 
who, being reasoning beings, have less excuse than the lower 
animals for acts of ferocity; these being called forth for the 
supply of their wants or defence against foes. On the other 
hand, we who believe that man hasa spiritual nature capable 
of immortality, can go a step further and recognise the 
dignity to which his race has been elevated in the person of 
the Divine Redeemer—both God and man; who by the union 
of the two natures has exalted him to a position amongst 
animated beings of illimitable and unspeakable glory. 
Let the disciples of Lamarck, Darwin, or Wallace, only 
recognise the agency of a Divine Power, directing the course 
of this world and of its inhabitants towards a noble and 
eternal destiny, and they will thus bring natural and spiritual 
law into harmony with each other; but we refuse to admit 
that natural law alone (even if such an agency be conceiy- 
able) suffices to account for the formation of man and his 
place in nature. 
As a geologist I cannot shut my eyes to the evidence that 
this world has been throughout past ages in course of pre- 
paration for the abode of man and the sphere of his action. 
Not only are the fruits and seeds of plants of the present day 
snited for his food, but the animals which came into exist- 
ence about the same period as himself are remarkably fitted 
to be both his companions and servants. We recognise in 
the deg, the horse, the ass, the camel, the elephant, and the 
ox—animals which, either by their bodily powers, sagacity, 
or capacity for attaching themselves to man, are almost in- 
separable from his presence—and essential to his everyday 
life. Itis only in late Tertiary times that these forms were 
developed. And, as regards the evidence of design, united to 
the law of “descent with modification,” the horse presents, 
perhaps, the most remarkable example to which palzontolo- 
cists can point. Darwin, on witnessing the naked Guachos 
of South America bestriding the nearly wild horse of the 
Pampas, has observed how remarkably adapted to each other 
are the borse and his rider.—{ Yet the ancestry of the horse 
* As described by Professor Drummond in Tropical Africa. 
+ Or, to use the language of very high authority, “so that two whole 
and perfect natures, that is to say, the Godhead and the Manhood, were 
joined together in One Person, never to be divided, whereof is one Christ.” 
Il. Article of Religion. 
{ Naturalists Voyage, p. 143. 
