[108] _A. P. de Candolle_, by A. de la Rive, pp. 12 and 13. [109] M. Vaucher's principal title to scientific distinction is his _Histoire des conferves d'eau douce_, Geneve, an XI (1803), 4 deg.. [110] _Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences_ of 20 April, 1863, page 738. [111] Exeter Hall Lectures--_The Power of God in His Animal Creation_, pamphlet in 12mo. This remarkable lecture contains a twofold protest--against the blindness of those savants who fail to recognize the presence of God in nature; and against the pretensions of those theologians who attack the certain results of the study of nature, relying upon texts more or less accurately interpreted. [112] _Chemistry applied to Agriculture and to Physiology_ (in German). Seventh edition. Introd. page 69. [113] Since these words were spoken, M. de la Rive has been named an associated member of the Institute of France (Academy of Sciences), and thus elevated to the first of scientific dignities. It might be shown, I believe, that the greater number of the eight associates of the Academy of Sciences to be found in the world, make profession of their faith in God the Creator, the Almighty and Holy One. The silence which others may have preserved on the subject would, moreover, be no authority for concluding that they do not share in beliefs and sentiments which they have not had the occasion perhaps of publicly expressing. [114] _On the Origin of Species_, page 81. Fifth edition. [115] _On the Origin of Species_. The text is--"the _necessary_ series of facts;" but it would be to do the writer wrong to impute to him the idea that observation reveals to us what is _necessary_, in the philosophical import of the word. [116] _On the Origin of Species._ [117] Caro, _L'Idee de Dieu_, page 47. [118] _Force et Matiere_, page 181. [119] The Buechner proceeding is found again pretty exactly in _Les Mondes_ of M. Amedee Guillemin. This writer affirms (page 60 of the third edition) that science does not approach metaphysical questions; and asserts in the same page, ten lines further on, that astronomical experience leads our reason to the idea of _the eternity of the universe_. After that, he may laugh, if he will, at _lovers of the absolute_. [120] See in particular the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, passim. [121] S'enivrait en marchant du plaisir de la voir. [122] See the lecture above mentioned. [123] _Lettres sur les Etats-Unis d'Amerique_, by Lieutenant-Colonel Ferri Pisani, page 400.--Letter of 25 Sept. 1861. [124] On the origin of species, in the _Archives des sciences de la Bibliotheque universelle_, March, 1860. [125] Vous coulez des moucherons. [126] In his _Principes de philosophie zoologique_, a collection of answers made by Geoffroy, in the discussions of the _Academie des Sciences_, in 1830. [127] Voyons, Messieurs, le temps ne fait rien a l'affaire. [128]