ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 5 
The remark is often made, that preservation is 
perpetual creation ; and it is true, because it requires 
precisely the same power, exerted in the same way 
to preserve, that it does to create. How our bodies 
are preserved we see. They waste and renew every 
day ; and it takes not many days to give each of us 
an entirely new body. We renew our bodies by food; 
and what is food but dust, so to speak, in an organ- 
ized form ? We live, therefore, corporeally on dust 
—in other words, we are continually created from 
the dust of the earth. But who gives this dust, or- 
ganized as bread and meat, power to furnish sus- 
taining elements to the body ? Who gives to the 
organs of the body power to digest and appropriate 
this dust when taken in as food 2? We see certain 
operations of matter upon matter, which we term 
cause and effect, so uniform, that the like cause in- 
variably produces the like effect. Who organized 
and regulates the laws of cause and effect 2 We see 
immense siderial systems, in which worlds without 
number are kept in continual and: harmonious mo- 
tion, each preserving its relative position with the 
other. How came they to exist, and what power 
devised and preserves the centrifugal and centripetal 
forces which hold them under control? In fine, we 
see everywhere the evidences of design; and are 
brought face to face with the First Cause. Science, 
to escape the fate of a felo de se, can no longer af- 
ford to ignore the existence of a Creator. 
