Grandeur of the Evidence--Proposed Line of Objection--It is but circumstantial--Example of Confusion of Thought--Analysis of the Reasoning---Dependent on the exhaustive Power of Observation--Relation of Precedence and Sequence--Of Cause and Effect--Force of my Position. 102-109 V. POSTULATES. The Creation of Matter--The Persistence of Species. 110-112 VI. LAWS. The Course of Nature a Circle--Illustrations--Scarlet Runner--Lady-fern--Hawkmoth--Plumularia--Cow--Universality of the Law--Creation an Irruption into a Circle--False Witness to Past Processes--Prochronism and Diachronism--Phenomena illusory--Recapitulation 113-126 VII. PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS. (_Plants._) Ideal Tour on Creation-Day--Chronological Investigations--Queried Age of a Tree-fern--Data for the Inquiry--Development of the Leaves--Leaf-scars--Report--Its manifest Error--Selaginella--Bamboo-- Couch-grass--Screw-pine--Pashiuba--Sugar Palm--Areca--Rattan--Agave--Traveller's Tree--Butterfly Flower--Orchis--Gladiolus--Grass-tree--White Lily--Testudinaria--Caffer-Bread--Fig--Banyan--Euphorbia-- Tulip-tree--Bignonia--Loranthus--Prickly Pear--Mangrove--Silk-cotton-tree--Locust-tree--Restriction of the Inquiry--Uniform Testimony to Untruth 127-181 VIII. PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS. (_Invertebrate Animals._) Resumption of the Examination--SeaPen--Millepore-- Madrepore--Organ-pipe--Medusa--Sea-urchin--Feather-star-- Tapeworm--Serpula--Terebella--White-ant--Goliath-beetle-- Gnat--Case-fly--Melicerta--Julus--Buprestis--Shore-crab-- Barnacle--Lepralia--Botryllus--Clavagella--Prickly Venus--Scorpion Stromb--Tiger Cowry--Thorny Murex--Pearly Nautilus--Cuttlefish 182-239 IX. PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS. (_Vertebrate Animals._) Examination of the Vertebrata--Sword-fish--Gilt-head-- Laminae of Scales--Shark--Arrangement of Teeth--Their Structure--Tree-frog--Metamorphosis--Rattlesnake-- Crocodile--Tortoise--Laminae of Plates--Skull of Cassowary--Peacock--Humming-bird--Trogon--Structure and Growth of Feathers--Whalebone of Whale--Horn of Ibex--Horn of Stag--Teeth of Horse--Of Babiroussa--Of Hippopotamus--Tusk of Elephant--Molars of Elephant 240-273 X. PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS. (_Man._) Examination of Primal Man--Blood--Its Formation--Its Oxygenation--Nails--Hair--Bones--Teeth--All formed by successive Processes--Stature--Thyroid Cartilage--Beard--Development of Teeth--Proportion of Bloods--Condition of Skeleton--Navel--False Conclusion 274-291 XI. PARALLELS AND PRECEDENTS. (_Germs._)