1 6 A GREAT CONFESSION CHAP. 



book appeared. He marshals and reiter- 

 ates the obvious considerations which 

 prove that the development of animal 

 forms must necessarily depend on an 

 immense number and variety of adjusted 

 changes in many different organs, all 

 co-operating with each other, and all 

 nicely adjusted to the improved func- 

 tional actions in which they must all par- 

 take. He reduces to a numerical com- 

 putation the practical impossibility of 

 such changes occurring as the result of 

 accident. He tells his opponents that 

 the chances against any adequate re- 

 adjustments fortuitously arising "must 

 be infinity to one." 1 But more than this : 

 he not only repels the Darwinian factor 

 as adequate by itself, but, advancing in 

 his conclusions, he declares that it must 

 be eliminated altogether. On further 

 consideration he tells us that in his 

 1 P. 57i. 



