For the truth of what is contained in this last paragraph, we may cite as witness amongst scientific men, the distinguished President of the British Association for 1872. Dr. Carpenter spoke at Brighton in these words:--"There is a great deal of what I cannot but regard as fallacious and misleading Philosophy--'oppositions of Science falsely so called'--abroad in the world at the present time. And I hope to satisfy you, that those who set up _their own conceptions_ of the Orderly Sequence which they discern in the Phenomena of Nature, as fixed and determinate _Laws_, by which those phenomena not only _are_ within all Human experience, but always _have been_, and always _must be_, invariably governed, are really guilty of the Intellectual arrogance they condemn in the Systems of the Ancients, and place themselves in diametrical antagonism to those real Philosophers, by whose comprehensive grasp and penetrating insight that Order has been so far disclosed." And again towards the close of his Address:--"With the growth of the Scientific Study of Nature, the conception of its Harmony and Unity gained ever-increasing strength. And so among the most enlightened of the Greek and Roman Philosophers, we find a distinct recognition of the idea of the Unity of the Directing Mind from which the Order of Nature proceeds; for they obviously believed that, as our modern Poet has expressed it-- "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the Soul." The Science of Modern times, however, has taken a more special direction. Fixing its attention exclusively on the _Order_ of Nature, it has separated itself wholly from Theology, whose function it is to seek after its _Cause_. In this, Science is fully justified, alike by the entire independence of its objects, and by the historical fact that it has been continually hampered and impeded in its search for the Truth as it is in Nature, by the restraints which Theologians have attempted to impose upon its inquiries. But when Science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of Theology, and sets up its own conception of the _Order_ of Nature as a sufficient account of its _Cause_, it is invading a province of Thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of those who ought to be its best friends." Our next extract is from Sir Benjamin Brodie, and it, too, considers the absolute permanence of the laws of Nature in relation to Design:-- Crites. "There have been sceptics who have believed that the laws of nature were, if I may use the expression, self-existent; and that what we now see around us is but a continuation of a system that has been going on from all eternity--thus dispensing with the notion of a great creative Intelligence altogether."