CHAPTER 



NINTH. 



RELIGIOUS INFERENCES FROM ANATOMY AND 

 PHYSIOLOGY. 



780. Highest Use of Science— The highest and most 

 important use of all science, is its religious applications : since 

 these are eternal, while all its secular bearings are only tem- 

 poral. 



781. Religious Value of Anatomy and Physiology. — 

 Perhaps no sciences are so prolific of religious applications as 

 anatomy and physiology. They bear especially and almost 

 exclusively upon Natural Religion. 



I. PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. 



782. The argument for a Deity from marks of design so 

 obvious in nature, derives some of its most striking examples 

 from anatomy and physiology. 



783. The Eye. — The eye has often been quoted as a strik- 

 ing instance. Who can mistake its object? And when we 

 examine its structure, we see how admirably adapted all the 

 parts are — the coats, the media, and the nerve — to secure this 

 object. And it is done far more perfectly than by the finest 

 optical instrument of man's construction. 



784. The Ear. — In the ear we have another example al- 

 most equally striking, except that the special object of some 

 of its parts is not so obvious as in the eye. 



785. Hands, Langs, Heart, etc— We might say the 

 same of the hands and the feet, the lungs, the muscles, the 



