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by design. The impacts are acts from design. The 

 first half of the motion of each ball is under the 

 direction of design. We mean by this the particular 

 design of each player. But, at the instant of the col- 

 lision of the balls upon each other, direction from 

 design ceases, and the balls no longer obey the par- 

 ticular designs of the players, the ends or purposes 

 intended by them are not accomplished, but frustrated, 

 by necessity, or by the necessary action of the powers 

 of inertia and elasticity, which are inherent in matter, 

 and are not made by any design of a Creator for this 

 special action, or to serve this special purpose, but 

 would have existed in the materials of which the balls 

 were made, although the players had never been 

 born. 



I have thus stated, by a simple example in physi- 

 cal action, what is meant by design and what by ne- 

 cessity ; and that the latter may exist without any 

 dependence upon the former. If I have given the 

 statement with what may be thought, by some, un- 

 necessary prolixity, I have only to say that I have 

 found many minds to have a great difficulty in con- 

 ceiving of necessity as acting altogether independent 

 of design. 



Let me now trace these principles as sources of 

 action in Darwin's work or theory. Let us see how 

 much there is of design acting to produce a foreseen 

 end, and thus proving a reasoning and self-conscious 

 Creator ; and how much of mere blind power acting 

 without rational design, or without a specific purpose 

 or conscious foresight. Mr. Darwin has specified in a 

 most clear and unmistakable manner the operation of 



