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the commoner and coarser forms of Teleology. 
But perhaps the most remarkable service to the — 
philosophy of Biology rendered by Mr. Darwin is ~ 
the reconciliation of Teleology and Morpholoeva i: 
and the explanation of the facts of both which his 
views offer. | 
The Teleology which supposes that the eye, | 
such as we see it in man or one of the higher Verte- _ 
brata, was made with the precise structure which — 
it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animal | 
which possesses it to see, has und oubsadly received — 
its death-blow. Nevertheless it is necessary to 
remember that there is a wider Teleology, which 
is not touched by the doctrine of Evolution, but is 
actually based upon the fundamental proposition — 
of Evolution. That proposition is, that the whole 
world, living and not living, in the result of the 
mutual interaction, according to definite laws, of : 
the forces possessed by the molecules of which the — 
primitive nebulosity of the universe was composed. 
If this be true, it is no less certain that the existing — 
world lay, potentially, in the cosmic vapour ; and — 
that a sufficient intelligence could, from a know-~ 
ledge of the properties of the molecules of that — 
vapour, have predicted, say the state of the Fauna 
of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one — 
can say what will happen to the vapour of the 
breath in a cold winter's day. ‘ 
Consider a kitchen clock, which ticks loudly, — 
shows the hours, minutes, and seconds, strikes, — 
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