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...tlie Ions-continued efforts of the highest human intellects ; and we naturally (?) infer that tlie eye has been formed by a somewhat analogous process. But may not this inference be presumptuous ? [It may indeed !] Have we any right to assume that tlie Creator works by intellectual powers like...

...this instrument has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellects ; and we naturally infer that the eye has been formed...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing...

...structure and hahits, with larger and laiger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." "If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing...

...this instrument has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellects ; and we naturally infer that the eye has been formed...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and men suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing...

...It is as follows : — " It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. — — If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing...

...It is as follows : — " It is scarcely possible to avoid comparing the eye to a telescope. — — If we must compare the eye to an optical instrument,...to take a thick layer of transparent tissue, with a nerve sensitive to light beneath, and then suppose every part of this layer to be continually changing...

..." has been perfected by the long-continued efforts of the highest human intellect " ; and, he says, we " naturally infer (!) that the eye has been formed by a somewhat anala4s ENDOWMENTS OF BIOPLASTS gous process." But natural inferences and analogical arguments of this...

...He doubts whether the inference implied may not be ' presumptuous.' He apprehends that we have no ' right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of a man.' Truly, of all suggested modes of marking respect for creative power, that of assuming it to...