372 EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



Professor Asa Gray, admittedly one of the ablest 

 botanists of the century, and to the day of his death 

 a strenuous and consistent advocate of the theory of 

 Evolution, thus expresses himself when speaking of 

 the work of Charles Darwin : " Let us recognize 

 Darwin's great service to natural science in bringing 

 back to it teleology ; so that instead of morphology 

 versus teleology, we shall have morphology wedded 

 to teleology." ' In another place he speaks of " the 

 great gain to science from his [Darwin's] having 

 brought back teleology to natural history. In Dar- 

 winism, usefulness and purpose come to the front 

 again as working principles of the first order ; upon 

 them, indeed, the whole system rests."* "In this 

 system," he continues, " the forms and species in all 

 their variety are not mere ends in themselves, but the 

 whole a series of means and ends, in the contempla- 

 tion of which we may obtain higher and more com- 

 prehensive, and perhaps worthier, as well as more 

 consistent views, of design in nature, than heretofore." 

 In it we have " a theory that accords with, if it does 

 not explain, the principal facts, and a teleology that 

 is free from the common objections," for, " the most 

 puzzling things of all to the old school teleologists 

 are the principia of the Darwinian. " 



Evolution and Teleology. 



In the " Life and Letters of Charles Darwin," 4 

 edited by his son, we read : " One of the greatest 



1 " Darwiniana," p. 288. 

 2 Ibid., p. 357. 

 8 Ibid., p. 378. 

 4 Vol. II, p. 430. 



