42 Prehistoric Races. 



ably. We fancy that we see in it a strong reassur- 

 ance of some general revival in sound 



Logic.° f the lo § ic and solid thou g ht - F or if, from a 

 chance percussion in a chance stone, 

 such a fracture as appears over and over again on 

 our roadways, made by the hoofs of horses, or by 

 the rolling of wheels, the sagacious minds of men 

 can discern the presence of an unknown being 

 whom no other sign manifests, and can just measure 

 his intellectual capacity and portray his physical 

 build, it is quite evident that many of the noblest 

 sciences are in a fair way to being reinstated. And, 

 as for teleology in particular, as for theism and 

 theology generally, the good time is coming when 

 no man's mind will fail to see, in the marks of 

 beautiful order impressed on the world and the uni- 

 verse, a magnificent testimony to the existence of 

 One who must have intended it, and made it, and 

 almost a description of Him, who having made it, 

 is now preserving and governing it. So much for 

 the form of the argument, or the manner of the 

 logic. 



42. Now a word on its matter. It has been asked, 



in a somewhat critical spirit, whether similarly 



broken stones, which are found to be 



Lo a gic e . r0fthe scattered about on a shingly beach, 

 argue the presence of men all about 

 there to do the breaking ? Again, M. Arcelin, a 

 French scientist, most prehistoric in his tastes and 

 specialties, picks up, in the argillaceous silex of 





