STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. " 



&c. Sir William Thomson goes on to infer that all 

 living beings depend on an ever-acting Creator and 

 Kuler — meaning, I am afraid, a Creator who is not an 

 organism. Here I cannot follow him, but while gladly 

 accepting his testimony to the omnipresence of intelli- 

 gent design in almost every structure, whether of animal 

 or plant, I shall content myself with observing the 

 manner in which plants and animals act and with the 

 consequences that are legitimately deducible from their 

 action. 



