Art and Science 



gestions, but which improved on these, and 

 directed each step of their accumulation, 

 though never foreseeing more than a step or 

 two ahead, and often not so much as this. 

 The fact, as I have elsewhere urged, that the 

 man who made the first kettle did not foresee 

 the engines of the Great Eastern, or that he 

 who first noted the magnifying power of the 

 dew-drop had no conception of our pre- 

 sent microscopes the very limited amount, 

 in fact, of design and intelligence that was 

 called into play at any one point this does 

 not make us deny that the steam-engine and 

 microscope owe their development to design. 

 If each step of the road was designed, the 

 whole journey was designed, though the par- 

 ticular end was not designed when the journey 

 was begun. And so is it, according to the 

 older view of evolution, with the development 

 of those living organs, or machines, that are 

 born with us, as part of the perambulating 

 carpenter's chest we call our bodies. The 

 older view gives us our design, and gives us 

 our evolution too. If it refuses to see a quasi- 

 anthropomorphic God modelling each species 



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