114 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



which the animate, as well as the inanimate 

 world declares to man, one thing everywhere 

 plainly recorded, if we will only read it, and 

 that is the impress of design, the design of in- 

 finite wisdom. Any theory which comes in 

 with an attempt to ignore design as manifested 

 in God's creation, is a theory, I say, which at- 

 tempts to dethrone God. This the theory of 

 Darwin does endeavor to do. If asked how 

 our old theory accounts for such uniformity of 

 design in the midst of such perplexing variety 

 as we find in nature, we reply, that this can 

 only be accounted for on one admission, that 

 the whole is the work of one Author, built 

 according, as it were, to oue style ; that it 

 represents the unity of one mind with the in- 

 finite power of adapting all its works in the 

 most perfect manner for the uses for which 

 they were created." " Whewell has boldly 

 maintained, and he has never been contro- 

 verted, that all real advances in the sciences 

 of physiology and comparative anatomy, — 

 such as that made by Harvey in discovering 

 the circulation of the blood, — have been made 

 by those who not only believed in the existence 

 of design everywhere manifested in the ani- 

 mate world, but were led by that belief to 

 make their discoveries." 



