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relation that exists between husband and wife. Being originally created as 
to bodily form perfect man and perfect woman, they were unitedly and 
severally endowed with intellectual and moral qualities of the same kind as 
those of their Maker, and in these respects were created in His image. 
15. If the foregoing arguments be good, any attempt to trace the origin 
of animals and of man to an oyster or a monad is altogether chimerical. 
Nature affords no data for an investigation of the generation of species. What 
Darwin says about the generative effects of “ natural selection, ’ “ the survival 
of the strongest,” &c., can only be empirical assertion, admitting of no veri- 
fication from observation or experience. The kind of “ development^ the 
laws of which nature does afford the means of investigating, and which to my 
mind is the most wonderful of all natural operations — more wonderful even 
than the construction of the heavens and the regulation of the movements of 
the heavenly bodies— is that by which a plant or animal passes through 
successive stages from the seed to the complete organism. What, for instance, 
can be more astonishing than the development of the chick from the egg by 
the mere application of animal heat ? The supporters of Darwinism, as 
Professor Huxley, are fond of adverting to the fact that at a certain stage 
the foetus of a child differs but little from that of a puppy, as if such resem- 
blance favoured the idea of development of species from a common origin. 
Here again, as it seems to me, is ah instance of perverse judgment arising out 
ofthe admission of radically false principles. The similarity above mentioned 
gives no countenance to Darwinism, being only an example of economy, such 
as is characteristic of natural operations, according to which out of a general 
scheme or type of development, the most wonderful varieties of effect are 
produced, owing entirely to original differences existing within the small 
compass of the seed. How different, for instance, in the case just jrnen- 
tioned is the final development of one foetus from that of the other ! The 
study of the laws of these developments belongs to two distinct and most 
interesting departments of natural science, Organic Botany and Physiology, 
for the prosecution of which Nature gives ample data by presenting to our 
view, or offering for our researches, vegetable and animal life in all varieties 
of function, and all degrees of complexity, from “the hyssop that springeth 
out of the wall to the cedar' of Lebanon,” and from the encrinite and the 
oyster to the perfect organization of the human body. 
16. I conclude by expressing the opinion, justified, I think, by the fore- 
going arguments, that so far from Darwinism being capable of giving support 
to Pantheistic and Atheistic Principles, it has no basis of its own to stand 
upon. 
