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certainly must the whole of that course 

 have been foreseen and prearranged. 

 It has certainly not been a haphazard 

 course. It has been a magnificent and 

 orderly procession. It has been a 

 course of continually fresh adapta- 

 tions to new spheres of functional 

 activity. We deceive ourselves when 

 we think or talk, as the Darwinian 

 school perpetually does, of organs being 

 made or fitted by use. The idea is, 

 strictly speaking, nonsense. They must 

 have been made for use, not by use, 

 because they have always existed in 

 embryo before the use was possible, 

 and, generally, there are many stages of 

 growth before they can be put to use. 

 It is, therefore, a fact not a theory 

 that during all these stages the lines of 

 development were strictly governed by 

 the end to be attained that is to say, 

 by the purpose to be fulfilled. 



