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112 THE GENEALOGY OF ANIMALS Iv 
that kitchen clocks are not contrived for the 
purpose of making a ticking noise. 
Thus the Pepa theories would be as wrong 
wa eer ew, ae 
; 
as the mechanical theorist, among our death- — 
watches; and, probably, the only death-watch who — 
would be right would be the one who should 
maintain that the sole thing death-watches could — 
be sure about was the nature of the clock-works ~ 
and the way they move; and that the purpose of — 
the clock lay wholly eee the purview of beetle 
faculties. 
Substitute “cosmic vapour” for “ clock,’ and | 
“molecules” for “works,” and the application 
of the argument is obvious. The teleological 
and the et ial views of nature are not, 
necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, 
the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the 
more firmly does he assume a primordial mo-_ 
lecular arrangement, of which all the phenomena 
of the universe are the consequences; and 
the more completely is he thereby at the 
mercy of the teleologist, who can always defy 
him to disprove that this primordial molecular 
arrangement was not intended to _ evolve 
the phenomena of the universe. On the other 
hand, if the teleologist assert that this, that, or 
the other result of the working of any part of the 
mechanism of the universe is its purpose and final 
cause, the mechanist can always inquire how he 
knows that it is more than an unessential incident — 
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