EVOLUTIONS OF ORGANIZATION. 15 
she is.” Observe how unjustifiable are the charges 
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which have been brought against him from a theo- 
logical point of view. “Chose étrange!” he ex- 
claims afterwards, “l’on a confondu la montre avec 
Vhorloger, ’ouvrage avec son auteur.”? 
In 1844 there was published in Edinburgh the 
book entitled “ Vestiges of the Natural History of 
Creation,” a work which appears to have been 
treated with scant justice by any party. Dar- 
winians have thought it necessary to disparage 
both this work and Lamarck; while to those de- 
fenders of Christianity who have so little faith in 
its own strength that they think it cannot stand 
without their coopering, and smell danger perpetu- 
ally from afar, it mattered nothing that the author 
of the “Vestiges,” as well as Lamarck, emphatically 
declared the necessity, according to his view, for a 
Creator. He described himself modestly as “a 
private person with limited opportunities of study”; 
and in the wide area over which he ranges he some- 
times seeks support from things which an expert in 
this or that department would touch with a wary 
hand ; but independence and originality, temper- 
ance and frankness are qualities which he displays 
in an unusual degree. 
The reasons which led him to think that spon- 
1 Op. cit. p. 66. 2 Op. cit. p. 95. 
