86 DARWINIANA. 



appears, the argument for design, as presented by the 

 natural theologians, is just as good now, if we accept 

 Darwin's theory, as'it was before that theory was pro- 

 mulgated ; and that the skeptical juryman, who was 

 about to join the other eleven in a unanimous ver- 

 dict in favor of design, finds no good excuse for keep-, 

 ing the court longer waiting. 1 



[ ! To parry an adversary's thrust at a vulnerable part, or to show 

 that it need not be fatal, is an incomplete defense. If the discussion 

 had gone on, it might, perhaps, have been made to appear that the 

 Darwinian hypothesis, so far from involving the idea of necessity 

 (except in the sense that everything is of necessity), was based npon the 

 opposite idea, that of contingency.] 



