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ally coincide mtli the very theory which Professor 

 Harvey denies. Is this progress supposed to take 

 place in time and space ? — or in the mind of a Being 

 ahove time and space, who afterwards reduces to act 

 and fact, in time and space, just so much and no 

 more of that progress as shall seem good to Him, 

 some here, some there ; not binding HimseK to begin 

 at the lowest, and end with the highest, but com- 

 pensating and balancing the lower with the higher in 

 each successive stage of our i^lanet? This last is 

 what the Professor really means, I doubt not : but 

 then, would that he had said boldly, that " God," and 

 not " Nature," is the accent. So would he have raised 

 at once the whole matter from the ground of destiny 

 to that of will, from the material and logical ground 

 to the moral and spiritual, from time and space into 

 ever-present eternity. To me it seems (to sum up, in 

 a few words, what I have tried to say) that such 

 development and progress as have as yet been ac- 

 tually discovered in nature, have been proved, espe- 

 cially by Professor Sedgwick and Mr. Hugh jMiller, 

 to bear every trace of having been produced by 



