have never seen a new species originate by any natural or artificial
method since the dawn of scientific observation.

Here again we find the record of Creation confirmed; for the failure of
the thousands of modern investigators to originate genuine new species
proves that in this respect also Creation is not now going on. And all
the analogies from the origin of matter, of energy, of life, and from
the laws of the reproduction of cells, indicate that we have at last
found rock bottom truth regarding the vexed question of the origin of
species. So far as science can observe and record, each living thing on
earth, in air, in water, reproduces "after its kind."



VII

GEOLOGY AND ITS LESSONS


I

In all the previous chapters I have not been giving any very new facts
or any discoveries of my own. True, my conclusions from the facts may
seem novel; but in general I have been giving merely facts which are
almost universally acknowledged by educated men. The conservation laws
of matter and of energy, the impassable gulf between the living and the
not-living, the laws governing cell multiplication, are matters of
common knowledge and will be found in the appropriate college text-books
throughout the civilized world. Even the facts which I have presented
regarding variation and heredity are admitted in one way or another by