274 THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [CHAP. 



The theist, having arrived at his theistic convictions from 

 quite other sources than a consideration of zoological or 

 botanical phenomena, returns to the consideration of such 

 phenomena and views them in a theistic light, without of 

 course asserting or implying that such light has been de- 

 rived from them, or that there is an obligation of reason so 

 to view them on the part of others who refuse to enter upon 

 or to accept those other sources whence have been derived 

 the theistic convictions of the theist. 



But Mr. Darwin is not guilty of arguing against meta- 

 physical ideas on physical grounds only, for he employs 

 very distinctly metaphysical ones ; namely, his conceptions 

 of the nature and attributes of the First Cause. But what 

 conceptions does he offer us ? Nothing but that low an- 

 thropomorphism which, unfortunately, he so often seems to 

 treat as the necessary result of Theism. It is again the 

 dummy, helpless and deformed, set up merely for the purpose 

 of being knocked down. 



tending toward certain high elementary conceptions which are the repre- 

 sentatives of the unity of the great archetypal ideas according to which 

 the whole system is arranged. Inductive conceptions, very partially and 

 imperfectly realized and apprehended by human intellect, are the expo- 

 nents in our minds of these great principles of Nature." 



" All science is but the partial reflection, in the reason of man, of the 

 great all-pervading reason of the universe. And thus the unify of science 

 is the reflection of the unity of Nature, and of the unity of that supreme 

 reason and intelligence which pervades and rules over Nature, and from 

 whence all reason and all science is derived." (Unity of Worlds, Essay 

 i., ii. ; Unity of Sciences, pp. 79, 81.) Also he quotes from Oersted's 

 "Soul in Nature" (pp. 12, 16, 18, 87, 92, 377). "If the laws of reason 

 did not exist in Nature, we should vainly attempt to force them upon 

 her : if the laws of Nature did not exist in our reason, we should not be 

 able to comprehend them." ..." We find an agreement between our 

 reason and works which our reason did not produce." ..." All exist- 

 ence is a dominion of reason." " The laws of Nature are laws of reason, 

 and altogether form an endless unity of reason ; . . . one and the same 

 throughout the universe." 



