DARWINISM. 



But cause or law at the base of all this grand purpose 

 was more mysterious than he even acknowledges. But 

 he thoroughly acknowledges lack of knowledge be- 

 yond his observations in habits or structure of beings 

 questioned. These observations lead him to multiply 

 the absurdity of his want of knowledge as to law, by 

 grasping for a means of carrying his reader along 

 through his work. The means was based on the weak- 

 ness, which he knew all too well to be the dominating 

 feature in the personality of each and all of his con- 

 temporaries. He looked for some means which he 

 could place in the foreground, something mysterious, 

 because the life of his time all looked into mystery for 

 knowledge. He continued this mystery in the fore- 

 ground, while displaying a keen knowledge through- 

 out all the work of all the animal and other organic 

 properties as revealed to him by study and observation. 

 He dare not drop the mystery in the face of the period 

 in which he lived, or he would not be able to carry the 

 reader along through his exposition of the peculiari- 

 ties revealed in the working order of organic nature. 

 In consequence we find that the hypothesis was nothing 

 more than a bait for the gullible. It had no meaning 

 to the writer other than a means of carrying out the 

 greater cause; that 'is, displaying the mysteries that 

 were truly mysterious to the writer. He choked the 

 other weaklings with one mystery that they may in- 

 quire into the great mystery which was confronting 

 himself. The why, whence and whither? 



His work may be summed up in a few words, that 



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