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certainly afforded valuable and pregnant suggestions, but 

 unaided and alone it seems inadequate to explain the 

 evolution of the individual organism. 



Those three conceptions of the organic world which may 

 be spoken of as the teleological, the typical, and the trans- 

 mutationist, have often been regarded as mutually antago- 

 nistic and conflicting. 



The genesis of species as here conceived, however, ac- 

 cepts, distributes, and harmonizes all the three. 



Teleology concerns the ends for which organisms were 

 designed. The recognition, therefore, that their formation 

 took place by an evolution not fortuitous, in no way invali- 

 dates the acknowledgment of their final causes if on other 

 grounds there are reasons for believing that such final 

 causes exist. 



Conformity to type, or the creation of species according 

 to certain " divine ideas," is in no way interfered with by 

 such a process of evolution as is here advocated. Such 

 " divine ideas " must be accepted or declined upon quite 

 other grounds than the mode of their realization, and of 

 their manifestation in the world of sensible phenomena. 



Transmutationism (an old name for the evolutionary 

 hypothesis), which was considered at one time to be the 

 very antithesis of the two preceding conceptions, harmo- 

 nizes well with them if the evolution be understood to be 

 orderly and designed. It will in the next chapter be 

 shown to be completely in harmony with conceptions, upon 

 the acceptance of which " final causes :} and " divine ideal 

 archetypes" alike depend. 



Thus then, if the cumulative argument put forward in 

 this book is valid, we must admit the insufficiency of 

 Natural Selection both on account of the residuary pheno- 



