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by throwing a multiple of twenty-six dice each marked with 

 a letter of the alphabet. 



The later arguments for design, therefore, which tend 

 to identify it with organization, and to see in it, so far as it 

 differs from natural law, simply a harking forward to that 

 career of things which is not yet unrolled, but which when 

 completely unrolled will be a part of the final statement of 

 origins in terms of natural law — this general view has the 

 justification of as much criticism as has now been stated. 



§ 6. Design is Genetic 



And, further, it is clear that the two opposed views of 

 adaptation in nature are both genetic views — instead of 

 being, as is sometimes thought, one genetic (that view 

 which interprets the adaptation after it has occurred) and 

 the other analytic or intuitive (that view which seeks a 

 beforehand construction of design). The former of these 

 is usually accredited to the evolution theory ; and properly 

 so, seeing that the evolutionist constantly looks backward. 

 But the other view, the design view, is equally genetic. 

 For the category of higher or mental organization by 

 which it proceeds is just as distinctly an outcome of the 

 movement or drift of experience toward an interpretation 

 of career in terms of history. Teleology, then, when 

 brought to its stronghold, is a genetic outcome, and owes 

 what force it has to the very point of view that its most 

 fervent advocates — especially its theological advocates — 

 are in the habit of running down. The consideration of 

 the stream of genetic history itself, no less than the 

 attempt to explain the progress of the world as a whole, 

 its career, leads us to admit that the real need of thinking 



