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164
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
68
If
it
be
said
that
‘natural
selection,’
or,
as
Mr.
Herbert
Spencer
better
defines
it,
the
‘survival
of
the
fittest,’
is
too
simple
a
cause
to
produce
such
fantastic
variety—
that,
again,
is
a
question
to
be
settled
exclusively
by
men
of
science,
on
their
own
grounds.
We,
meanwhile,
always
knew
that
God
works
by
very
simple,
or
seemingly
simple,
means;
that
the
universe,
as
far
as
we
could
discern
it,
was
one
organization
of
the
most
simple
means.
It
was
wonderful—
or
should
have
been—
in
our
eyes,
that
a
shower
of
rain
should
make
the
grass
grow,
and
that
the
grass
should
become
flesh,
and
the
flesh
food
for
the
thinking
brain
of
man.
It
was—
or
ought
to
have
been—
more
wonderful
yet
to
us
that
a
child
should
resemble
its
parents,
or
even
a
butterfly
resemble,
if
not
always,
still
usually,
its
parents
likewise.
Ought
God
to
appear
less
or
more
august
in
our
eyes
if
we
discover
that
the
means
are
even
simpler
than
we
supposed?
We
held
Him
to
be
Almighty
and
All-wise.
Are
we
to
reverence
Him
less
or
more
if
we
find
Him
to
be
so
much
mightier,
so
much
wiser,
than
we
dreamed,
that
He
can
not
only
make
all
things,
but—
the
very
perfection
of
creative
power—
make
all
things
make
themselves?
We
believed
that
His
care
was
over
all
His
works;
that
His
providence
worked
perpetually
over
the
universe.
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