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import of the great. If his theory were true, the facts for its support 
should exist by millions, and by billions. That his researches have not 
produced the facts he wanted, makes them tell more strongly against 
him. If all living life, and all that has been, came from first simple forms 
by slow changes, through all being up to the classes, orders, genera and 
“Species that we find in existence, and to have existed through all the geo- 
logical eras, then intermediate links should have been endlessly abundant, 
and if but a hundredth part of the fossil kinds had been exhumed, they 
should necessarily have revealed the wanted evidence ; living nature should 
also have abounded in ample testimony, by endless and inextricable con- 
fusion. To reach existing results, the process of change being gradual, 
the transition creatures should have teemed in myriad forms, other than 
is now seen in fossil or in life. 
But why, if there was such immensity of transition as to account for 
the astounding changes wrought ; why, if such endless variations were 
started in nature casually, or by chance, without reason or motive ; how 
<eame nature to act so wisely as to bring order out of confusion and chaos, 
and on that order to take her stand more firmly than the mountains? In 
the transitional steps towards all the forms that have existed, of every 
shape and size from the little Rhizopod, Ascidian, Trilobite or Radiate, 
at the bottom of the ocean, up to the whale, mastodon and man, during 
an assumed necessary unimaginable length of time ; how was all life so 
marshaled and placed as science now finds and arranges it, and finds it 
ever resistant of all change? Intelligence and will, even then, must have 
governed the proceeding and guided its purpose so that all should live 
and not work confusion. That Intelligence that could do so much in 
ruling nature, and could create the earliest life, surely could proceed more 
-directly and without disorder, to create the kinds and species for whom 
that same Intelligence had provided the land, air, water and food, upon, 
in and by which they should all live, in congenial habitation. But Darwin 
never recognizes that Being as essential to his theory : No! the theory 
makes nature herself a substitute for God. Her forces it was, that from 
time to time jostled all creatures into slight variations, and then she her- 
self selected the best chance-products of a capricious generation and con- 
tinued them, and perfected without intending to perfect them, and the 
life of the weak and monstrous was extinguished, merely because not fit- 
est to survive. If nature has such power over us and ours, and all living, 
shall we not impersonate and worship her as our deity? Men did do this, 
in various forms, but it was before science and revelation had dethroned 
the heathen deities. They are not likely to be restored to the worship of 
mankind, and thoughtful men generally believe in one supreme God. 
And why has there been any limit to classes, orders, genera and species ? 
And why has the growth of each and all creatures had their normal limit? 
Certainly by some intelligent Power that ruled over what are called the 
forces of nature. Why cannot the naturalist more frequently elevate his 
views to recognize an Intelligence, without whom all that he studies, him- 
self included, can have little significance, or philosophy any worthy or 
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