584 UNITY OF THE DEITY. 
extensive subterranean researches that have more 
recently been made, have greatly enlarged the 
range of Facts in accordance with those on 
which Paley grounded this assertion. 
In all the numerous examples of Design which 
we have selected from the various animal and 
vegetable remains, that occur in a fossil state, 
there is such a never failing Identity in the 
fundamental principles of their construction, and 
such uniform adoption of analogous means, to 
produce various ends, with so much only of de- 
parture from one common type of mechanism, as 
was requisite to adapt each instrument to its own 
especial function, and to fit each Species to its 
peculiar place and office in the scale of created 
Beings, that we can scarcely fail to acknowledge 
in all these facts, a demonstration of the Unity 
of the Intelligence, in which such transcendant 
Harmony originated ; and we may almost dare 
to assert that neither Atheism nor Polytheism 
would ever have found acceptance in the World, 
had the evidences of high Intelligence and of 
Unity of Design, which are disclosed by modern 
discoveries in physical science, been fully known 
to the Authors, or the Abettors of Systems ta 
which they are so diametrically opposed. " It 
is the same hand writing that we read, the 
same system and contrivance that we trace, the 
same unity of object, and relation to final 
causes, which we see maintained throughout. 
