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tinct and, at first sight, conflicting conceptions, each of 

 which contains elements of truth, and all of which it ap- 

 pears to be able more or less to harmonize. 



Thus it has been seen that " Natural Selection " is ac- 

 cepted. It acts and must act, though alone it does not 

 appear capable of fulfilling the task assigned to it by Mr. 

 Darwin. 



Pangenesis has probably also much truth in it, and has 

 certainly afforded valuable and pregnant suggestions, but 

 unaided and alone it seems inadequate to explain the evo- 

 lution of the individual organism. 



Those three conceptions of the organic world which 

 may be spoken of as the teleological, the typical, and the 

 transmutationist, have often been regarded as mutually an- 

 tagonistic and conflicting. 



The genesis of species as here conceived, however, ac- 

 cepts, locates, and harmonizes all the three. 



Teleology concerns the ends for which organisms were 

 designed. The recognition, therefore, that their formation 

 took place by an evolution not fortuitous, in no way invali- 

 dates the acknowledgment of their final causes if on other 

 grounds there are reasons for believing that such final 

 causes exist. 



Conformity to type, or the creation of species according 

 to certain " divine ideas," is in no way interfered with by 

 such a 'process of evolution as is here advocated. Such 

 " divine ideas " must be accepted or declined upon quite 

 other grounds than the mode of their realization, and of 

 their manifestation in the world of sensible phenomena. 



Transmutationism (an old name for the evolutionary hy- 

 pothesis), which was conceived at one time to be the very 

 antithesis to the two preceding conceptions, harmonizes 

 well with them if the evolution be conceived to be orderly 

 and designed. It will in the next chapter be shown to be 

 completely in harmony with conceptions, upon the accept- 



