The New York herald., 1874-09-30

shape for each Of Its organs. Animals and vegeta-
bes are classified according to type; and they can
be so arranged, because types are really found in
nature, and are not the mere creation OF human
reason or fancy. Without principles OF unity 10
guide him, man would feel himself lost, as in
forest among the works OF God, because OF their
very multiplicity and variety. very curious cir
cumstance in relation to the forms OF nature Is
that they are
ALPHABETICALLY REGULAR.
"a series OF beautiful rhomboidal figures, with
definite angles, may be observed on the surface OF
the cones OF pines and frs, while the leaves and
branches OF this plant are placed round the axis
in sets OF spirals Besides these typical resem.
hlances, which ENABLE us 10 classify plants and an
mals and the beautiful curves which do so crafty
the contemplative intellect. there are certain
correspondences In the structure OF organs which
seem to me TO be especially illustrative OF plan
intellectually devised and Systematically pur-
sued Aristotle noticed the correspondence be-
ween the hands OF man, the fore limbs OF mammals
and the wings G birds, and between the limbs OF
these animals and the fms Of fishes. Newton,
musing upon the symmetry OF the animal BRAN.
exclaimed :-'SinlAiter poStta Omnta IN omnibus
.rere ani,aaltbus'
"All these things that have just mentioned"
continued the DOCTOR "Professor TYndall com.
pleteiy ignores. In no manner does he pretend to
account for this wonderful order, harmony and
mathematical eXactness. l do not mean to say
that these bare facts OF themselves prove that
there Is living and personal GOd clothed with
every perfection; but they are fitted to deliver us
from painful and degenerate notions, which may
be suggested by the human heart In times OF uu-
belief, or by persons who have been lost in laby-
rinth or unbel!ef built by themselves and who are
not unwilling that ShQuld hecOme be-
wildered as they are They prevent us from feel
Ing that We and all things else, are
THE MERE SPORT OF CHANCE,
ever changing its procedure, without reason and
without notice, or what is still more dreadful that
we may be crushed beneath'the chariot wheels Of
a stern ana relentless fate. moving on without de-
sign and without end. All objects being regu-
larly constructed and modes Of procedure so
wonderfully systematic, fill the mind and prepare
us, If they do no more, to wait Tor the disclosure
OF loving being who may fill the heart. The IN
tellect is not satisfied with contemplating unless
the heart be al the same time satisfied with low
ing. 1t is the grand mistake OF not lew gifted
men OF these latter ages to imagine that the order
and iovellness OF the universe, Ats forces, its
mechanism, It's laws its well-ntted proportion will
OF themselves satisfy the soul. 1t will be found
that all these, however fondly dwelt up0n must in
the end leave the same melancholy and disap.
pointed feeling as the sight OF a noble mansion
doomed to remain forever tenantess. unless they
lead on to love, and such love can De only ielt
toward living and loving GOD.
'T might 60 on to an indefinite lengthn the
doctor continued, "and tell you how necessary
were special adjustments In order to insure the
benefcent operation of the forces of ma
ture. l think l could prove to you con-
clustvely that these adjustments are de-
md
with you for hours upon the obviousness and COM
pleteness OF special adaptations. If you had the
time could demonstrate to you the traces OF Or
der In the organs Of plants the relations Of form
and color in the flower and the adaptation of these
forms and cOfors to the natural tastes OF man.
Pretty much all that l have already told you, and
much that do not mention viii be found in my
work upon typical germs. Forms so uniform aud
which adhere to laws so rigid that no system or
evolution, whether advanced by Tyndall or by any
one else, provided the first form was not living,
loving, Infinite God, could account for
the order in which We ever find them,
nay could not account for their SIMPLE
existence. Tyndall not only overiooks typical
forms, but also the doctrine OF a final cause. Tyn-
das theory OF the evolution OF all things from
lifeess atoms cannot account for the theology in
nature. Tyndan also fails to explain the distinc-
tion between matter and mind. We know that
mind and matter exist, but there Is not particle
OF evidence to show that matter ever becomes
mind"
''What do you think Of Tyndall's materialism as
compared with the modern German school of
Buchner and Vogty"
"The difference is so exceedingly great" an
swered the Doctor, "that 1t is hardly fair to make
q comparison. Tyndallism is far above the philos-
ophy OF either of the gen ntlemen you have named
aro hOt ma aria nf ha D,oa
kind. Tyndallism is far better than anything that
either Buchner or Vogt has advanced. / believe
that have given you already the weaknesses
which upon sight appear to me to exist in Tyn-
dall's theories. The order which is everywhere
discernible In nature-the order OF number, form,
color and time-Tyndals philosophy does not &C.
count for. and until such conditions are accounted
Tor the doctrine of ey olution must needs be weak
and unsatisfactory"