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of an eye from a more simple organ was that 

 the ultimate eye — man's eye, for instance — 

 was to be a perfect optical instrument, and 

 that its perfection depended on the previous 

 design by the Creator, that at a certain period 

 it should appear in a body quite adapted for 

 its purposes. There is one question, — and not 

 the only one, but we must consider it as an 

 important question, — whether you can main- 

 tain a doctrine of evolution which shall not be 

 atheistical,, and which shall admit the great ar- 

 gument of design ? That is one thing ; but the 

 next thing is, does such a doctrine as that ac- 

 cord either with revelation or with the facts of 

 science ? I do not believe that it can be made 

 to Agree with what we believe to be the re- 

 vealed Word of God, and I do not believe that 

 it has in the least degree been proved that the 

 doctrine is consistent with sound science." 



As to Mr. Darwin's theory, it is obvious 

 from the passages already quoted that he con- 

 siders its characteristic feature is not evolution, 

 nor even natural selection, but the denial of 

 teleology, or of intelligent control. Mr. Dar- 

 win admits the original creation of one or a 

 few forms of life ; and Mr. Mitchell, in his com- 

 ments on Mr. Warington's defence of his theory, 



