XII.] THEOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 323 



The validity of these ohjections is fully conceded by 

 the author of this book ; but he would push them much 

 further, and contend (as lias been now repeatedly said), 

 that another law, or other laws, than " Natural Selection " 

 have determined the evolution of all organic forms and 

 inorganic forms also. And Mr. Wallace, in order to be 

 quite self-consistent, should arrive at the very same con- 

 clusion, inasmuch as he is inclined to trace all phenomena 

 to the action of superhuman will. He says : ^ "If there- 

 fore we have traced one force, however minute, to an 

 origin in our own will, while we have no knowledge of 

 any other primary cause of force, it does not seem an im- 

 probable conclusion that all force may be will-force ; and 

 thus, that the whole universe is not merely dependent on, 

 but actually is, the will of higher intelligences, or of one 

 Supreme Intelligence." 



If there is really evidence, as Mr. AVallace believes, of 

 the action of an overriding intelligence in the evolution of 

 the " human form divine ; " if we may go so far as this, 

 then surely an analogous action may well be traced in the 

 production of the horse, the camel, or the dog, so largely 

 identified with human wants and requirements. And if 

 from other than physical considerations we may believe 

 that such action, though undemonstrable, has taken and 

 does take place; then (reflecting on sensible phenomena 

 the theistic light derived from psychical facts) we may, 

 in the language of Mr. Wallace, " see indications of that 

 power in facts which, by themselves, would not serve to 

 prove its existence." '^ 



Mr. Murphy, as lias been said before, finds it necessary 

 to accept the wide-spread action of " intelligence " as the 



1 Loc. cit., p. 368. - Loc. cit., p. 350. 





