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senses of the word, apparatuses, and 

 as such are essentially purposive. The 

 evolution of them can only mean the un- 

 folding of elements contained in the pre- 

 sent, but conceived and originated in the 

 past 



We believe in organic evolution in 

 this deepest of all senses. We do not 

 believe, any more than Mr. Spencer, in 

 creation without a method in creation 

 without a process. We accept the 

 general idea of development as com- 

 pletely as Mr. Spencer does. We accept, 

 too, the facts of organic evolution, so far 

 as they have yet been very imperfectly 

 discovered. Only, we insist upon it, that 

 the whole phenomena are inexplicable 

 except in the light of mind that pre- 

 vision of the future, and elaborate plans 

 of structure for the fulfilment of ultimate 

 purposes in that future, govern the whole 

 of those phenomena from the first to the 



