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if the whole area of space within our cognizance 

 gives no hint of a development from which sprang 

 the separate chemical elements so-called, what like- 

 lihood is there that the span of their changes in 

 time could come within our recognition ? The 

 phenomena peculiar to life, and summed up in 

 development, we know have appeared by slow 

 degrees ; and intelligence, an addition totally dif- 

 ferent in kind, both from matter and from life, 

 makes its appearance likewise by insensible gra- 

 dation. 



If the development of each individual be related 

 to a larger development as the lives of the tissue- 

 elements are related to the life of an organism, and 

 if that larger development proceeds in definite direc- 

 tions to termini or adult conditions, I own that I 

 can see nothing out of harmony. It has seemed to 

 some of the ablest biologists that have ever lived that 

 there is a vast amount of evidence that such ter- 

 mini exist. But the prejudiced superstition that 

 starts with the dogma that there can be no design 

 nor aught that is complete in nature, because the 

 laws of matter must be capable of accounting for 

 everything, never deigns to consider the evidence of 

 ordered evolution or completeness, but sets it aside 

 with a sneer as "scholastic nonsense" and "arche- 

 typal follies," and calls that attitude the " method 



