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2. Sequence — such suitability continued throughout a Z^ times ; 



3. Inter-relation — the suitabiHty between the structures and 



instincts of all creatures as related one to another. 



Any one of these facts is inconsistent with the doctrine of 

 "chance"; their cumulative cogency is absolutely decisive. 



Dr. A. T. ScHOFiELD writes : — 



I am much obliged for the copy of Dr. "Walter Kidd's paper so 

 kindly sent, and much regret that an engagement on Monday 

 prevents my attending the meeting. I do not think I ever read a 

 more lucid or graphis account of creation from the standpoint taken. 

 There is no doubt that it is too soon yet to decide the nett value of 

 Darwin's work, and that the Design argument gains ground as 

 the pendulum swings over from the unsatisfying creed of the 

 extreme evolutionist. 



Professor J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., writes : — 

 I find it diflBcult to understand Dr. Walter Kidd's position in 

 this controversy. This arises partly, no doubt, from the extreme 

 difficulty of keeping always to the same meaning of the terms 

 employed ; partly also to the fact that he is arguing sometimes 

 against one, and sometimes against another of the various 

 development hypotheses. 



Among those who believe in a Divine Ci"eator and Sustainer 

 of the Universe, there are three quite distinct views : — 



1. That He makes new things or organisms out of nothing. 

 This idea has no warrant in the sacred Scriptures ; and the 

 progress of science makes it less and less tenable. 



2. That He accomplishes His purpose by making the new thing 

 or organism at once out of some material previously existing, but 

 totally different from it. This, of course, is a very common way 

 of procedure among men ; and it is impossible to avoid making 

 use of the language appropriate to it, even when arguing against 

 its application to the Divine procedure. 



3. That He forms the new things, whether inanimate or 

 animate, by means of the gradual modification of things already 

 existing. This is development, or evolution. 



Dr. Walter Kidd seems to hold this third view genei'ally. 

 Thus he describes very minutely the progressive evolution of 

 the individual from the embryo. He might have continued 



