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Artificial selection, then, is an intelligent pro- 

 cess ; natural selection is not. 



There are in the animal and vegetable 

 worlds innumerable instances of at least appar- 

 ent contrivance, which have excited the admi- 

 ration of men in all ages. There are three ways 

 of accounting for them. The first is the Scrip- 

 tural doctrine, namely, that God is a Spirit, a 

 personal, self-conscious, intelligent agent ; that 

 He is is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in 

 his being and perfections ; that He is ever 

 present ; that this presence is a presence of 

 knowledge and power. In the external world 

 there is always and everywhere indisputable 

 evidence of the activity of two kinds of force : 

 the one physical, the other mental. The phys- 

 ical belongs to matter, and is due to the prop- 

 erties with which it has been endowed ; the 

 other is the everywhere present and ever act- 

 ing mind of God. To the latter are to be re- 

 ferred all the manifestations of design in nat- 

 ure, and the ordering of events in Providence. 

 This doctrine does not ignore the efficiency of 

 second causes ; it simply asserts that God over- 

 rules and controls them. Thus the Psalmist 

 says, " I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

 . . . My substance was not hid from thee, when 



