CHAPTER XVIII.

CONCLUSION.

What general remark is made on the kingdom of life? What is said of the general plan of creation? (p. 408.) Is this plan carried on with perfect regularity? What exceptions are there? What is the essential character of the plan? (p. 409.) Should different views of the mode of creation make any difference in our views of its connection with the Creator? What views are most congenial to the sentiments of our nature, and are in conformity with the relation which exists between Man and his Maker? (p. 410.) What was the original condition of the earth? What changes occurred before the introduction of Life? Was its progress unimpeded? How was it resisted? What is said of the nature and duration of the contest of life with the inorganic forces? (p. 411.) Has it terminated? In what respect is life a feeble power? By what attributes is this feebleness compensated? (p. 412.) By what kind of causes were the changes that took place in the first two eras of creation brought about?

(p. 413.) With what event did the third era in creation begin? What constitutes the peculiar feature of this era? What is the resemblance pointed out between the introduction of the organic into the inorganic, and of the spiritual into the organic? (p. 414.) Is there anything in the work of preparation which indicates the character of that to which it leads? Can we determine the period of the successive introduction of these new elements into creation? What remarks are made on this subject.

era?

(p. 415.) What attributes of the Deity are successively illustrated in these three eras? What is the characteristic of the first? - Of the second? (p. 416.) Describe the changes which take place in the third What assurance have we of the ultimate triumph of the principle introduced in it? What views of our relation to the Deity are suggested? (p. 417.) What is said of the legitimate connection of this subject with Philosophy and Science ? - Of its intrinsic importance? What is the prevalent tendency of modern science? To what conceptions of Deity does it lead? (p. 418.) — To what views of Revelation?

THE END.