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agency which is present in all organic 

 forms. 



But this plea of Romanes, though 

 futile as an argument for the purpose for 

 which he used it, is at least a striking 

 testimony to the fact that those who 

 have been most possessed by the 

 Darwinian hypothesis, do consider any 

 appeal to the agency of mind as hostile 

 to their creed. Yet nothing can be 

 more certain than that it is not hostile 

 to the general idea of development, nor 

 to the general idea of what Mr. Spencer 

 calls organic evolution. Provided these 

 conceptions are so widened as to include 

 that Agency of which all Nature is full, 

 and without perpetual reference to which 

 the common language of descriptive 

 science would at once be reduced to an 

 unintelligible jargon provided the de- 

 velopment, or evolution, of previsions of 

 the future, and of provisions for it, are 



