84 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



isten von Profession," would not cheerfully 

 adopt. His distinction between a higher and 

 lower teleology is of no account in this dis- 

 cussion. What is the teleology to which, he 

 says, Mr. Darwin has given the death-blow, 

 the extracts given above clearly show. The 

 eye, Huxley says, was not made for the pur- 

 pose of seeing, or the ear for the purpose of 

 hearing. " According to teleology," he says, 

 " each organism is like a rifle bullet fired 

 straight at a mark ; according to Darwin, or- 

 ganisms are like grapeshot, of which one hits 

 something and the rest fall wide." ^ 



Buch7ie7\ 



Dr. Louis Biichner, president of the medical 

 association of Hessen-Darmstadt, etc., etc., is 

 not only a man of science but a popular writer. 

 Perhaps no book of its class, in our day, has 

 been so widely circulated as his volume on 

 '' Kraft und Stoff," Matter and Force. It has 

 been translated into all the languages of Eu- 

 rope. He holds that matter and force are 

 inseparable ; there cannot be the one without 

 the other ; both are eternal and imperishable ; 

 neither can be either increased or diminished ; 



1 Lay Sermons, etc. p. 331. 



