136 HEREDITY AND " ARRANGEMENT" 



discoveries have been proclaimed as being as 

 fundamental to biology as those of Newton and 

 Dalton to other sciences. 



There are, then, laws. That means one of two 

 things : either that these laws arose by chance- 

 medley, or that some one enacted them. It seems 

 impossible, when one surveys the orderly opera- 

 tions of Nature, among which are those conducted 

 under the laws known by the name of their dis- 

 coverer, Mendel it seems wholly impossible that 

 these operations arose by chance-medley. To 

 me, at any rate, any such explanation is wholly 

 unthinkable. But if it be an impossible ex- 

 planation, as I and many thousands, not to say 

 millions, of other persons believe, then there is 

 no other way out of it than that these operations 

 must have been planned by some one ; in other 

 words, that there must have been a Creator 

 and Deviser of the world. 



People hide from this explanation, and one of 

 the favourite sandbanks in which this particular 

 kind of human ostrich plunges its head is " Nature." 

 " Nature does this," and " Nature does that," 

 forgetting entirely the fact that " Nature " is a 

 mere personification and means either chance- 

 medley or a Creator, according to the old dilemna. 

 There is a very curious example of this inability 

 or unwillingness to admit perhaps even to 

 understand the force of this argument exhibited 

 by those to whom one would suppose that it would 

 come home with overpowering force : I mean, of 

 course, the Mendelians. 



The most learned of these, and one of the most 



