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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 Morphology, 

 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 Vcrtc- 

 Irata, was made with the precise structure which 

 it exhibits, for the purpose of enabling the animal 

 which possesses it to see, has undoubtedly 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, 



