UNITY OF THE DEITY. 583 
doras, these demonstrations of Design, although 
affording evidence of Intelligence and Power, 
would not have proved a common origin in the 
Will of one and the same Creator ; and the Po- 
ly theist might have appealed to such non- ac- 
cordant and inharmonious systems, as affording 
indications of the agency of many independent 
Intelligences, and as corroborating his theory of 
a plurality of Gods. 
But the argument which would infer an Unity 
of cause, from unity of effects, repeated through 
various and complex systems of organization 
widely remote from each other in time and place 
and circumstances, applies with accumulative 
force, when we not only can expand the details of 
facts on which it is founded, over the entire sur- 
face of the present world, but are enabled to 
comprehend in the same category all the various 
extinct forms of many preceding systems of or- 
ganization, which we find entombed within the 
bowels of the Earth. It was well observed by 
Paley, respecting the variations we find in living 
species of Plants and Animals, in distant regions 
and under various climates, that " We never get 
amongst such original or totally different modes 
of Existence, as to indicate that we are come into 
the province of a different Creator, or under the 
direction of a different Will.'^^ And the very 
* Paley Nat. Theol. p. 450. Chap, on the Unity of the Deity. 
