APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
If a. mail cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take hit; opinion about its aitar-pjeee or painted window. * * * * If Man can he separated by no brutes than they are from one another —then it seems to follow that if any process of physical causation can he discovered by which the general families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is amply sillfieient to account for the origin of Man. •K * v * The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of-any hut what arc termed secondary causes, in the production of ail the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world, and between the forces exerted hv the latter and all other forces, I ban se no excuse for doubting that all .‘ire co-ordinated terms of Nature’s great progression, from the formless to the formed— from the inorganic to the organic—-froni blind force to conscious intellect and will.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1932, Page 1
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175APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1932, Page 1
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