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ing matter ? Is it without a purpose that water 

 instead of contracting, expands at the freezing 

 point ? — a fact to which is due that the 

 earth north of the tropic is habitable for man 

 or beast. It is no answer to this question to 

 say that a few other substances have the same 

 peculiarity, when no good end, that we can see, 

 is thereby accomplished. No man is so foolish 

 as to deny that his eye was intended to enable 

 him to see, because he cannot tell what the 

 spleen was made for. It is, however, useless 

 to dwell upon this subject. If a man denies 

 that there is design in nature, he can with 

 quite as good reason deny that there is any 

 design in any or in all the works ever executed 

 by man. 



The conclusion of the whole matter is, that 

 the denial of design in nature is virtually the 

 denial of God. Mr. Darwin's theory does deny 

 all design in nature, therefore, his theory is 

 virtually atheistical ; his theory, not he him- 

 self. He believes in a Creator. But when 

 that Creator, millions on millions of ages ago, 

 did something, — called matter and a living 

 germ into existence, — and then abandoned the 

 universe to itself to be controlled by chance 

 and necessity, without any purpose on his 



