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who must live in time. Where is this your designer ? 

 Can you show him more than I can ? Can you lay 

 your finger on him and demonstrate him so that a child 

 shall see him and know him, and find what was hereto- 

 fore an isolated idea concerning him, combine itself 

 instantaneously with the idea of the designer, we will 

 say, of the human foot, so that no power on earth shall 

 henceforth tear those two ideas asunder? Surely if 

 you cannot do this, you too are trifling with words, and 

 abusing your own mind and that of your reader. 

 Where, then, is your designer of man ? Who made 

 him? And where, again, is your designer of beasts 

 and birds, of fishes, and of plants ?" 



Our answer is simple enough ; it is that we can and 

 do point to a living tangible person with flesh, blood, 

 eyes, nose, ears, organs, senses, dimensions, who did of 

 his own cunning after infinite proof of every kind of 

 hazard and experiment scheme out, and fashion each 

 organ of the human body. This is the person whom 

 we claim as the designer and artificer of that body, and 

 he is the one of all others the best fitted for the task 

 by his antecedents, and his practical knowledge of the 

 requirements of the case — for he is man himself. 



Not man, the individual of any given generation, 

 but man in the entirety of his existence from the 

 dawn of life onwards to the present moment. In 

 like manner we say that the designer of all organisms 

 is so incorporate with the organisms themselves — so 

 lives, moves, and has its being in those organisms, and 

 is so one with them — they in it, and it in them — that 

 it is more consistent with reason and the common use 



