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planation of the order of Nature. But, as a witness to be sum- 
moned on behalf of Atheism, Tyndall is himself aware that 
Dai win s testimony is all the other way. Not only has he 
brought forward the most beautiful and striking evidence of 
adaptation in the works of nature ; but, if I understand aright, he 
looks upon all as parts of one great design , though he may 
regard the results as wrought mediately, rather than immediately. 
But Tyndall tells us that Darwin “ rejects teleology, seeking to 
refer these wonders to natural causes.” They illustrate, °ac- 
cording to him, “the method of Nature, not the technic of a man- 
like artificer.” * 
f his is Tyndall on Darivin ! But we have not Mr. Darwin’s 
authorization of Tyndall as his interpreter. However, let this 
pass ; for the undeniable fact remains that the foundation of 
Darwin’s theory is not Atheism, but that it imperatively requires 
that to which its author frequently reverts — the original creation 
of things by Divine power. 
So Tyndall unkindly turns round upon him with these crush- 
ing observations : — 
“ ) Vhat Mr. Darwin thinks of this view of the introduction of life I do 
not know. But the anthropomorphism (!) which it seemed his object to set 
aside, is as firmly associated with the creation of a few forms as with the 
creation of a multitude. We need clearness and thoroughness here. Two 
courses, and two only, are possible. Either let us open our doors freely to 
the conception of creative acts, or, abandoning them, let us radically change 
our notions of matter. ”t 
Truly a change somewhere appears desirable, for Tvndall 
describes with evident approbation and adhesion the notions of 
Bruno. 
“ The infinity of forms under which matter appears were not imposed upon 
it by an external artificer : by its own intrinsic force and virtue it brings 
these forms forth. Matter is not the mere empty capacity which philoso- 
phers have pictured her to be, but the universal mother "who brings forth all 
things as the fruit of her own womb.”J 
But what about the paternity of the offspring? The universal 
father is not forthcoming. By taking one-half of the old fable 
of “ Heaven and Earth,” and obliterating the other, our scientific 
moderns have made nonsense of the whole. 
It would be tedious to multiply examples of the skill of the 
writer. No doubt, as the author of “Heat as a Mode of 
Motion f he is able to expound to us the theory of La Place. 
“ According to it, our sun and planets were once diffused through 
space as an impalpable haze, out of which by condensation came 
* Page 42. . Is it in reference to this that Tyndall quotes “ It were better 
to have no opinion of God at all, than such an one as is unworthy of Him ; 
tor the one is unbelief, the other is contumely” ? (Bacon.) 
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