292 Address of Sir William Thompson. 
a teaching of science as the law of gravitation. I utterly repu- 
diate, as opposed to all philosophical uniformitarianism, the 
ect contravention of what seems to us biological law. I am 
prepared for the answer, “ our code of biological laws is an €X- 
ression of our ignorance as well as of our knowledge.” 
the most careful and laborious experimenting. I confess 10 
being deeply impressed by the evidence put before us by Prof 
Huxley, and I 
faith, true throug 
ceeds from life, and fr 
there was no living thing on it, There were rocks solid and 
disintegrated, water, air all round, warmed and illuminated by 
a brilliant sun, ready to become a garden. Di pie 
and flowers s nto existence, in all the fullness of mpé 
beauty, by a fiat of Creative Power? or did vegetation, grow 
or years it teems with vegetable and anim ; 
originated by tlie transport of seeds and ov4 
