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Now so far the theory of design and the theory of Book i 

 evolution very closely resemble each other ; but here 

 we come to the point of essential difference between species, there- 

 them. According to the theory of design, the varieties to the woiu- 8 

 and gradations of organic life were not only the result r^suifoAn'ten- 

 of intention in the supreme Mind, but were also them- t j on> but not 



the result 



selves the exact result intended. According to the intended. 

 evolutionary theory, although they were the result 

 of an infinity of intentions, not one of the living 

 things, from whose intention they resulted, intended 

 them. They were the by-product of actions under- 

 taken for entirely different ends that is to say, for 

 the benefit of the individual creatures who under- 

 took them. This is the essential and this is the 

 peculiar character with which the theory of evolu- 

 tion invested them. It presented to the mind the 

 extraordinary phenomenon of a single series of 

 actions producing a double series of results the 

 intended and the unintended, the latter of which, 

 though entirely different from the former, was Evolution, in 

 equally orderly, equally reasonable and coherent, reasonable 



Evolution, in fact, as revealed to us in the physio- 

 logical world, is, for the philosopher, neither more 

 nor less than this the reasonable sequence of the 

 unintended. 



But this definition of evolution does not apply This is as true 

 only to development in that world of facts studied tkm a* it fa of 

 by Darwinian science. It is equally applicable to bl 

 the process of social evolution also. Indeed social 

 evolution is even more strikingly, though not more 

 truly, than physiological evolution, the reasonable 



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