An attempt has been made to reconcile modern theories of development with some acknowledgment of a Creator by the use of a new phrase, creation by law. There are many, who are impressed by the imposing claims of scientific evidence, set up on behalf of a continual evolution of new forms of life, and who are still reluctant to abandon wholly their faith, as Christians, in an All-wise Creator. Their syncretism embodies itself in this ambiguous term. The popular view, they urge, derogates from the Divine power and fore-knowledge. It represents the acts of creation as occasional, uncertain, capricious interferences with settled law. The Supreme Architect is reduced to the level of a human machinist, who needs to interfere, from time to time, to repair His own machine, or to introduce desirable changes in its complex machinery, of which He was unable to foresee the want when it was first made. Science, on the other hand, reveals more and more, in every part of nature, the reign of fixed and settled laws. Even those phenomena, which seemed once exceptional and capricious, like eclipses, and the combustion of explosive mixtures, are resolved, by larger experience or profounder thought, into regular results of the same abiding laws, under special conditions that are more rarely combined. Why should we not extend the same principle to the work of creation also?