204 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [Chap. 



instead uf being supported by his relatives and friends. In 

 the same way, there is fully as real a distincti(Mi between 

 tlie production of new s})ecitic manifestations entirely ah 

 extcnio, and tlie production of the same through an innate 

 force and tendency, the determination of which into action 

 is occasioned by external circumstances. 



To say that organisms possess this innate power, and 

 that by it new species are from time to time produced, is 

 by no means a mere assertion that they a^x produced, and 

 iu an unknown mode. It is the negation of tli^at view 

 which deems external forces alone sufhcient, and is at the 

 same time the assertion of something positive, to be arrived 

 at by the process of elimination. 



All physical explanations result ultimately in such con- 

 ceptions of innate power, or else in that of will force. The 

 far-ftuned explanation of the celestial motions ends in the 

 conception that every particle of matter lias tlie innate 

 power of attracting every other particle directly as the 

 mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. 



We are logically driven to this positive conception, if we 

 do not accept the view that there is no force but volition, 

 and that all phenomena whatever are the immediate residts 

 of the action uf intelligent and self-conscious wilL 



We have seen that the notion of sudden changes — sal- 

 tatory actions in nature — has received countenance from 

 Tiofessor Iluxley.-- AVe must conceive that these jumps 

 are orderly, and according to law, inasmuch as tlie whole 

 cosmos is such. Such orderly evolution harmonizes with 

 a teleology derived, not indeed froan external nature 

 directly, but from the mind of man. On this point, how- 

 ever, more will l)e said in the next chapter. 



1 "Lay Scrn.nn>;," p. 342. 



