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solution of so singular an order that it renders henceforward any explicit explanations unnecessary.

The one comprehensive remark applies equally well to every event. The time is not far off when such an exposition, repeated over and over again, against all probabilities, to account for the ever returning order and beauty of the world, will be regarded as a feeble child overlain.

Anticipation in vegetable life seems also, on the face of the facts, pervasively present in the provision made by it for the nourishment of animal life. This proof admits, however, of an easy evasion, by regarding the life as a causal sequence of the food, rather than the food as a preparation for the life. The relation is thus exclusively one of causes, and not of final causes. We cannot feel fully the inadequacy of this statement, till we have considered the world collectively, and seen how extendedly it is interlaced with provisions which exclude the supposition that they are present, one and all, without reference to the ends which they subserve; and till we have given proper weight to the fact that animal life is not a product of food, but that food is simply a condition to the independent powers expressed by it. Food must be before animal life can be, but this food, being present, does not carry with it the life that is to feed upon it.

There are some secondary provisions which are not open to this objection. Vegetable life accommodates itself to the wants of insects in a mechanical way very often, sheltering the young between the