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think, better entitled, to the name. Let 

 him exhaust the meaning of his own 

 language. An organ is an apparatus 

 for the discharge of some definite vital 

 function. That is its only meaning. It 

 is a means to an end. But the existence 

 of a future need, and the preparation for 

 the supply of it, have no necessary or 

 merely mechanical connection. A steam- 

 engine must have a boiler, and a piston, 

 and a condenser, and gearing to convert 

 rectilinear into rotatory motions. These 

 are all needs if the apparatus is to do 

 its work. But this is a great " if." For 

 it implies that there is some agency 

 which has willed and determined that 

 the work must and shall be done. It 

 implies that the mechanical needs for the 

 doing of it will not be supplied without 

 an agency which both sees them and is 

 able to provide for them. All vital 

 organs are, therefore, in the strictest 



