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where seen to be the product of life — of the living, not of the 
not living — it is reasonable to believe that this wonderful and 
mysterious power was introduced by the Great First Cause, 
who ^^is the Lord and giver of life/^ To believe this is much 
more reasonable than to believe that life originated by mere 
mechanical action. Surely, then, the German professor is 
unscientific, inasmuch as he draws his conclusions from mere 
hypothesis, not facts; and persuades himself, and expects 
others to be persuaded, that these fallacious conclusions are 
facts. He attributes effects to insufficient causes. On the 
other hand, those who believe in the creation of certain typical 
forms — true species — of living creatures by a Great First 
Cause, attribute the marvellous effects by which they are 
surrounded to a cause commensurate with these effects : life 
from life; laws from a law-giver; adaptation of means to 
ends, as the deliberate planning of one who saw the end from 
the beginning, and not the result of blind unreasonmg 
Natural Selection,^^ whatever that may mean. 
Let us go a step further and calmly inquire what the doc- 
trine of evolution as taught by Professor Haeckel requires us 
to believe. Nothing less than this. First, that all inorganic 
bodies at present found on our globe and all parts of the solar 
and stellar systems, have been developed out of a simple 
homogeneous mass of matter ; and, second, that all the forces 
of nature, both mechanical and chemical, and even psychical, 
are not the result of mind and will, but are the product of 
molecular motion, which motion — in the absence of mind — 
must have been assumed by the particles of matter themselves. 
But this is opposed to human reason. Because, — 
1. It is admitted that matter is inert — that is, it cannot of 
itself originate motion. Now, if this be so, and we see it is, 
then every exhibition of motion at the first must have origin- 
ated in something outside matter, i,e,, in mind. 
2. But it is indisputable that matter does exhibit motion 
and other forces, and is governed by laws which are discover- 
able, and when discovered are found to be uniform. As these 
laws could not have originated in matter itself, they must have 
been impressed on it by mind. 
3. Now, since the forces, the laws and the motions of matter 
were in operation long before any human mind existed, it is 
evident that there must have been a sentient Being existing at 
the time when matter first exhibited these various forces, and 
that this Being impressed these forces on matter. This Being, 
the great First Cause, we call God. 
We are bold enough to say that the above propositions are 
