and I agreed with myself to admit, as I read, whatever appeared plausible.

I did so, and my objection to my author was this: Upon the grounds of analogy and experience I found Paley insisted that design implies a designer, that this designer must be a person, and that this person is God: but the analogy which had been the guide to his feet, and the experience which had been a lamp to his path, were suddenly abandoned, and at the very moment when their assistance seemed to promise curious revelations."-- "Two modes of refutation are open; to attack the _principle_, or pursue the _analogy_.

Geoffroy St.Hilaire has taken one course.

I take the other.

If, in the investigation of this question, it be legitimate to employ analogy in one part, it must be legitimate to employ it in like respects in another....