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A perversion of the first view leads towards atheism, the no- 
tion of an eternal sequence of cause and effect, for which there 
is no first cause,—a view which few sane persons can long rest 
in, The danger which may threaten the second view is panthe- 
ism. We feel safe from either error, in our profound conviction 
that there is order in the universe; that order presupposes mind; 
design, will; and mind or will, personality. ‘Thus guarded, we 
much prefer the second of the two conceptions of causation, as 
the more philosophical as well as Christian view,—a view which 
leaves us with the same difficulties and the same mysteries in 
Nature as in Providence, and no other. Natural law, upon this 
View, is the haman conception of continued and orderly Divine 
tion, 
We do not suppose that Jess power, or other power, is required 
to sustain the universe and carry on its operations, than to brin 
tinto being. So, while conceiving no improbability of “inter- 
Yentions of Creative mind in nature,” if by such is meant the 
bringing to pass of new and fitting events at fitting times, we 
leave it for profounder minds to establish, if they can, a rational 
distinction in kind between His working in nature carrying on’ 
*perations, and in initiating those operations. 
€ wished under the light of such views, to examine more 
cally the doctrine of this book, especially of some question- 
parts ;—for instance, its explanation of the natural develop- 
criti 
patton of species and organs through natural agencies, the 
°f means a series of events which succeed each other irre- 
a of the * essential, the directly intellectual thing is the making 
Wheth improvements in the telescope or the steam-engine. 
er the successive improvements, being-small at each step, 
applieg tent with the general type of the instrument, are 
to some of the individual machines, or entire new ma- 
