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ganic world, just referred to, does not confirm, for 

 there a material connection between the facts is justly 

 held to be consistent with an intellectual and which 

 the most analogous cases we can think of in the or- 

 ganic world do not favor ; for there is a material con- 

 nection between the grub, the pupa, and the butterfly, 

 between the tadpole and the frog, or, still better, be- 

 tween those distinct animals which succeed each other 

 in alternate and very dissimilar generations. So that 

 mere analogy might rather suggest a natural connec- 

 tion than the contrary; and the contrary cannot be 

 demonstrated until the possibilities of Nature under 

 the Deity are fathomed. 



But, the intellectual -connection being undoubted, 

 Mr. Agassiz properly refers the whole to " the agency 

 of Intellect as its first cause." In doing so, however, 

 he is not supposed to be offering a scientific explana- 

 tion of the phenomena. Evidently he is considering 

 only the ultimate why, not the proximate why or how. 



Now the latter is just what Mr. Darwin is consid- 

 ering. He conceives of a physical connection between 

 allied species; but we suppose he does not deny their 

 intellectual connection, as related to a supreme intelli- 

 gence. Certainly we see no reason why he should, 

 and many reasons why he should not. Indeed, as we 

 contemplate the actual direction of investigation and 

 speculation in the physical and natural sciences, we 

 dimly apprehend a probable synthesis of these diver- 

 gent theories, and in it the ground for a strong stand 

 against mere naturalism. Even if the doctrine of the 

 origin of species through natural selection should pre- 

 vail in our day, we shall not despair ; being confident 



