of Darwin’s Treatise on the Origin of Species. 229 
One, indeed, who believes from revelation or any other cause, 
in the existence of such a Creator, the fountain and source of all 
things in heaven above and in the earth beneath, will see in 
natural variation, the struggle for life and natural selection, only 
the order or mode, in which this Creator, in his own perfect wis- 
dom, sees fit to act. Happy is he who can thus see and adore. 
ut how many are there who have no such belief from intui- 
tion, or faith in revelation;*but who have by careful and elab- 
orate search in the physical, and more especially in the organic 
world, inferred, by induction, the existence of God from what 
as seemed to them the wonderful adaptation of the different or- 
gans and parts of the animal body to its, apparently, designed 
ends! Imagine a mind of this skeptical character, in all honesty 
herve, or a rudimentary hoof or claw, no design is to be found. 
From this point upwards the development is the mere necess 
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chance, as impossible. It must then be design. But Darwin 
brings up another power, namely, natural selection, in place o 
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Selection, by necessity, for design in the formation of the or- — 
ganic world, is a step decidedly atheistical. It is in vain to say 
that Darwin takes the creation of organic life, in its simplest 
forms, to have been the work of the Deity. In giving up design 
in these hichest and most complex forms of organization, which 
have always been relied upon as the crowning proof of the ex- 
Istence of an intelligent Creator, without whose intellectual power 
