Art and Science 



organisation to allow of our setting down its 

 marvels to the accumulations of fortunate ac- 

 cident, undirected by will, effort and intelli- 

 gence. Those who examine the main facts 

 of animal and vegetable organisation without 

 bias will, no doubt, ere long conclude that all 

 animals and vegetables are derived ultimately 

 from unicellular organisms, but they will not 

 less readily perceive that the evolution of 

 species without the concomitance and direc- 

 tion of mind and effort is as inconceivable as 

 is the independent creation of every individual 

 species. The two facts, evolution and design, 

 are equally patent to plain people. There is 

 no escaping from either. According to Messrs. 

 Darwin and Wallace, we may have evolution, 

 but are on no account to have it as mainly 

 due to intelligent effort, guided by ever higher 

 and higher range of sensations, perceptions, 

 and ideas. We are to set it down to the 

 shuffling of cards, or the throwing of dice 

 without the play, and this will never stand. 



According to the older men, cards did in- 

 deed count for much, but play counted for 



more. They denied the teleology of the time 



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