of Darwin’s Treatise on the Origin of Species. 239 
If the production of a perfect crystalline lens in the eye—you 
know not how,—as much indicated design, as did the production 
of a Dollond achromatic lens,—you understand how—then why 
does not “the swelling out” of a particular portion of the mem- 
brane behind the iris—caused you know not how—which, by 
she would believe in design as firmly as before, and that this 
belief would be attended oy a higher conception and reverent 
l, 
g she had previously conceived possible. 
Wherefore, ve may iret that, for all that yet ni secre 
gument for design, as presented by the natural oger 18 
just as good now, if we accept Darwin's oor as it was before 
that theory was promul ated ; and that the s eptical J ee 
who was about to join the other eleven in an unanimous verdict 
in favor of design, finds no good excuse for keeping the Court 
ting. 
longer wal 
