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corresponding conditions must be sub- 

 mitted to, and certain apparatuses must 

 be devised, and provided, for the meet- 

 ing of these necessities. But the bond 

 the nexus between the existence of 

 a need and the actual meeting of that 

 need, in the supply of an apparatus, can 

 be nothing but a perceiving mind and 

 will. I quite agree with Mr. Spencer 

 that most men when they talk of separate 

 or special Creation do not realise, or 

 "visualise," what they mean by it. But 

 exactly the same criticism applies to the 

 language of those who are perpetually 

 explaining organic structures as develop- 

 ments governed by the absolute neces- 

 sities of external adaptations. They do 

 not really see the necessary implications 

 of their own language. If the organism 

 is to live at all, they frequently tell us, 

 such and such developments must arise. 

 Quite so but who is it, or what is it, 



