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change can take place without the influence of altered 

 external circumstances. 1 'Derivation' sees, among the 

 effects of the innate tendency to change irrespective of 

 altered circumstances, a manifestation of creative power in 

 the variety and beauty of the results ; and, in the ultimate 

 forthcoming of a being susceptible of appreciating such 

 beauty, evidence of the pre-ordaining of such relation of 

 power to the appreciation. ' Natural Selection ' acknow- 

 ledges that if ornament or beauty, in itself, should be a 

 purpose in creation, it would be absolutely fatal to it as 

 a hypothesis." 



" ' Natural Selection ' sees grandeur in the view of life, 

 with its several powers, having been originally breathed 

 by the Creator into a few forms or into one. ' Derivation' 

 sees therein a narrow invocation of a special miracle and 

 an unworthy limitation of creative power, the grandeur of 

 which is manifested daily, hourly, in calling into life many 

 forms, by conversion of physical and chemical into vital 

 modes of force, under as many diversified conditions of 

 the requisite elements to be so combined." 



The theory propounded in this work allows, however, a 

 greater and more important share to external influences, 

 it being believed by the author that these external in- 

 fluences equally with the internal ones are the results of 

 one harmonious action underlying the whole of nature, 

 organic and inorganic, cosmical, physical, chemical, terres- 

 trial, vital, and social. 



According to this view, an internal law controls the 

 action of every part of every individual, and of every 



1 This is hardly an exact representation of Mr. Darwin's view. On his 

 iliejry, if a favourable variation happens to arise (the external circum- 

 feia.-Cc; remaining the same), it will yet be preserved. 



