264 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



instead of being supported by his relatives and friends. In 

 the same way, there is fully as real a distinction between 

 the production of new specific manifestations entirely ab 

 externo, and the production of the same through an innate 

 force and tendency, the determination of which into action 

 is occasioned by external circumstances. 



To say that organisms possess this innate power, and 

 that by it new species are from time to time produced, is 

 by no means a mere assertion that they are produced, and 

 in an unknown mode. It is the negation of that view 

 which deems external forces alone sufficient, and is at the 

 same time the assertion of something positive, to be arrived 

 at by the process of elimination. 



All physical explanations result ultimately in such con- 

 ceptions of innate power, or else in that of will force. The 

 far-famed explanation of the celestial motions ends in the 

 conception that every particle of matter has the innate 

 power of attracting every other particle directly as the 

 mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. 



We are logically driven to this positive conception,, if we 

 do not accept the view that there is no force but volition, 

 and that all phenomena whatever are the immediate results 

 of the action of intelligent and self-conscious will.. 



We have seen that the notion of sudden changes sal- 

 tatory actions in nature has received countenance from 

 Professor Huxley. 1 We must conceive that these jumps 

 are orderly, and according to law, inasmuch as the whole 

 cosmos is such. Such orderly evolution harmonizes with 

 a teleology derived, not indeed from external nature 

 directly, but from the mind of man. On this point, how- 

 ever, more will be said in the next chapter. 



1 "Lay Serious," p. 342. 



