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systematic personal intervention of a Divine Power, 

 and who cannot recognise the power without being 

 able to trace what is called the finger or the hand of 

 the Creator in all his works. In a certain sense, 

 no doubt, every contrivance, or in other words, every 

 arrangement in the universe may be made to yield 

 evidence of this. But we would venture to suggest 

 that the noblest view of creation, and a knowledge of 

 the real greatness of the Creator, can only be learned 

 by those who seek to discover the much higher and 

 nobler intelligence that designed the whole system. 

 That there should be an interfering hand is a mark 

 of weakness in the original plan. If the structure be 

 perfect, interference is not necessary." And agaia, 

 "All true science has for its object not only the 

 observation of facts, but the investigation of methods 

 and the discovery of laws. These laws can only be 

 binding and unalterable because they cannot be 

 changed with advantage ; in other words, because 

 they are perfect, as being instituted by One who is 

 himself perfect." 



But, independently of scientific considerations, 

 archseological or ethnological, the subject has most 

 direct and important practical bearings. Nations, 

 like individuals, have their idiosyncracies and apti- 

 tudes. As one man has a genius for poetry and 

 painting, and another a talent for mathematics and 



