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Prof. Huxley, who loves to pose as an agnostic, 

 but who is endowed with a critical acumen that is pos- 

 sessed by neither Biichner nor Haeckel, affirms that : 

 " The most remarkable service to the philosophy of 

 biology rendered by Mr. Darwin, is the reconciliation 

 of teleology and morphology, and the explanation 

 of the facts of both, which his views offer. The tel- 

 eology which supposes that the eye, such as we see 

 it in man or one of the higher vertebrates, was 

 made with the precise structure it exhibits, for the 

 purpose of enabling the animal which possesses it to 

 see, has undoubtedly received its death-blow. Never- 

 theless, it is necessary to remember that there is a 

 wider teleology which is not touched by the doctrine 

 of Evolution, but is actually based upon the funda- 

 mental principle of Evolution." ' 



To the foregoing testimonies, and others of like 

 import which could easily be adduced in any number 

 desired, I will add the matured opinion of the dis- 

 tinguished naturalist and keen metaphysician, whose 

 name has already figured so frequently in these 

 pages, St. George Mivart. A biologist of marked 

 eminence, an evolutionist of pronounced convictions, 

 a theologian of recognized ability, no one is better 

 qualified to express a judgment regarding the bear- 

 ings of the Evolution theory on the argument from 

 design and the doctrine of final causes. " A careful 

 study," he tells us, "of the inter-relation and inter- 

 dependencies which exist between the various orders 

 of creatures inhabiting this planet, shows us a yet 

 more noteworthy teleology the existence of whole 



1 " Darwiniana," p. no. 



