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Considered as a methodological question, 

 the hypothesis of evolution is either true or 

 not true. It cannot be half true and be evolu- 

 tion. I see design in it because it postulates 

 uniformity of force and action. The idea of 

 special creation postulates change of purpose 

 or at least incompleteness of design. It in- 

 fers capriciousness. Much of the creation is 

 meaningless unless we conceive all its parts 

 to have organic connection. The idea of 

 a creator interfering in his creation, and con- 

 stantly reinforcing and mending it, is typi- 

 cally human, suggested by the workshop, and 

 is unworthy of a creator. The creator is not 

 a mechanic. 



If the cosmos is a design, it must follow, 

 of course, that there is design in its parts ; 

 but the design in the parts is the unfolding 

 of the law of design, not special interference 

 in particulars. 



The place of the individual. 



To the individual, the evolution conception 

 enforces the importance of the person as dis- 



