CREATION BY LAW. 2S5 



are but as clay in the hands of the Potter, and 

 that the " Law " of structure is entirely subordinate 

 to the "Law" of Purpose and Intention under 

 which the various parts of that structure are com- 

 bined for use ? 



But Science will continue to ask, even if she 

 never gets an answer, What is the community 

 of physical cause which produces this community 

 of resulting structure ? The fact which it is most 

 difficult to disengage from the theory of Deve- 

 lopment, or, in other words, from the theory of 

 Creation by Birth, is the existence of rudimentary 

 or aborted organs ; the existence of teeth, for ex- 

 ample, in the jaws of the Whale — teeth which 

 never cut the gum — and which are entirely use- 

 less to the animal. We have an inherent con- 

 viction that this must have some use in the 

 future, — that is, in some organism to be born from 

 this one, — or else it must have had some use in 

 the past, — that is, in some organism from which 

 this one has descended. In either case the power 

 of Inheritance is suggested to the mind. We think 

 instinctively of the existence of some Derivative 

 Form in which these teeth have been, or are to 



