134 CLUES AND SUGGESTIONS CHAP. 



This, indeed, is evolution ; but it is 

 the evolution of mind and will ; of 

 purpose and intention. We are not to 

 be scared by the application to this 

 indisputable logic of that most meaning- 

 less of all words the supernatural. 

 For myself I can only say that I do 

 not believe in the supernatural that 

 is to say, I do not believe in anything 

 outside of what men call Nature, which 

 is not also inside of it, and manifest 

 throughout its whole domain. I cannot 

 accept, or even respect, the opinion of 

 men who, in describing the facts of 

 Nature, and especially the growing 

 adaptations of organic structures, use 

 perpetually the language of intention 

 as essential to the understanding of 

 them, and then repudiate the implica- 

 tions of that language when they talk 

 what they call science or philosophy. 

 When evolutionists do defend their 



