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secondary agencies in creation can have no bearing on 

 the question of design. 



I dwell on this for the reason that some people 

 seem to imagine that by beginning with nothing, and 

 adding little by little through the ages, we may 

 obtain a given product from factors different from 

 those that would be required if the work were done 

 in a short time. Time alone cannot change the qual- 

 ity of the factors involved. 



Design is not only seen in looking at man as an 

 isolated individual, but also in his multitudinous rela- 

 tions. All things visible are made to contribute to 

 his physical well-being or his intellectual growth, and 

 the unseen powers of nature are his servants. 



The world without him would, as a matter of ulti- 

 mate design, seem to be incomplete. He fits into the 

 place which, through the long ages, the Creator had 

 been preparing for him. He ■ came as the crowning 

 act of creation to control and enjoy a world of con- 

 ditions and objects which it had required ages to 

 prepare. 



Creation through its long geological history was a 

 perpetual prophecy of something higher and better to 

 come — a constant march upward toward mtud as the 

 goal. Each of the ten thousand things that could be 

 of use to an intelligent being only, was a prophecy of 

 the coming man; and when he came and converted 

 these things, which had been so long in waiting, to his 

 use, the prophecy was fulfilled. 



Many things upon the earth are useless to all organ- 

 isms below man. This is true of most elementary 

 substances and minerals, and largely true of most 

 plants and of many animals. 



Man's appearance completed the divine purpose of 

 bringing under the control of intelligence all created 

 things. Design was fulfilled in the creation of a new 



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