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is the primitive fetishistic habit of thought, however modified 

 by conflict with scientific habits, which furtively leads us to 

 regard volition as supplying the nexus between cause and 

 effect, and to interpret the harmonious correspondences in 

 nature as results of creative contrivance and indications of 

 creative purpose. 



Such being the origin of the teleological hypothesis, its 

 apparent warrant is to be sought in the facts above recounted 

 with respect to the evolution of intelligence. It is the com 

 plex and organized correspondence of the mind with its 

 environment, which seems to furnish inductive justification 

 to the thinker who is predisposed to see in nature the workings 

 of a mind like his own. Arranging and combining various 

 experiences received from without, adjusting new inner rela 

 tions to outer relations established from time immemorial; 

 man reacts upon the environment, and calls into being new 

 aggregations of matter, new channels of motion, new reservoirs 

 of energy. He does not perceive and reflect only he also con 

 trives and invents. As often as he builds an engine, launches 

 a ship, paints a picture, moulds a statue, or composes a sym 

 phony, he creates in the environment new relations tallying 

 with those present within himself. And then, by a natural 

 but deceptive analogy, he infers that what has taken place in 

 the tiny portion of the universe which owns himself as its 

 designer, must also have taken place throughout the whole. 

 All the relations externally existing, he interprets as conse 

 quent upon primordial relations shaped in a mind similar 

 to his own. By a subtle realism, he projects the idea of 

 himself out upon the field of phenomena, and deals with it 

 henceforth as an objective reality. Human intelligence made 

 the watch, therefore superhuman intelligence made the flower. 

 Human volitions bring to pass wars and revolutions, divine 

 volitions therefore cause famine and pestilence. So when, 

 in the pervading unity which amid endless variety of detail 

 binds into a synthetic whole the classes and genera of the 



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