HITCHCOCK'S ANATOMY 



Objection. — It is said that these arguments would prove the inferior animals, even those 

 that lived long before man, to be in a fallen condition, since they both suffer and die. 



Answer.— The lower animals, not having a moral nature, cannot sin ; but they may 

 suffer in consequence of their connection with sinful man. The world, from the beginning, 

 was adapted to him as a fallen being, and of course all other animals must be subject, 

 like him, to suffering and death. This sympathy of all nature with man's fallen condition 

 is clearly taught in Revelation. (See Rom. viii., 18-23.) 



815. IV. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY FURNISH PROOF OF 



THE DIVINE UNITY. 



That is, they show that only one Mind could have been 

 concerned in the plan of animal organization. 



816. — 1. The Conspiration of all t Ii e Parts to Produce 

 the Same End —This appears, in the first place, from the 

 conspiration of all the tissues and organs to produce a single 

 result. There are as many as a million of parts in the hu- 

 man body, all of which must go right to keep the system in a 

 healthy state. It may worry us when some of them go wrong, 

 as in case of disease ; but if many of them become deranged 

 death ensues. An attentive observer of the race will see that 

 all these parts are originally arranged so as to conspire in the 

 production of health and happiness. There could have been 

 no divided counsels in such a work. 



817. — 2. Relations of Different Individuals in the 

 Animal Kingdom.— The relations of all the branches and even 

 individuals of the whole animal kingdom to one another af- 

 ford a still more striking evidence of divine unity. For here 

 the objects to be compared are multiplied a thousand fold, and 

 the extremes in organization, in habits, and modes of living 

 are immeasurably wide. Yet there is such a relation among 

 them all as to show them all belonging to one system, bound 

 together in the closest harmony. All must, therefore, have 

 been the work of one Infinite Mind. Or if more than one 

 was concerned, each must have had the same plan ; and the 

 idea is absurd that there can exist more than one infinite 

 mind. 



