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attain it, then it was chance that stumbled upon every 

 living thing, as well as that unique thing, the human 

 consciousness, with all its wonderful content Art, 

 Science, Morality, and the thoughts that wander through 

 eternity. And this conclusion the human mind refuses 

 to receive. Thus, while chance is the only possible 

 alternative offered, our reason necessarily falls back upon 

 purpose, as in some sense the determining principle in 

 the world-process, and into this notion it will be the 

 business of Philosophy to throw the best meaning she 

 can. 



9. We have been considering Darwinism in its 

 essential principles, and as a philosophical system which 

 has been developed by others rather than by its dis- 

 tinguished founder. And we are entitled to consider 

 the system, whether Darwin himself would accept all the 

 consequences involved in it or no. For it is the system 

 as a whole that really concerns us ; it is there that the 

 important and far-reaching consequences of the whole 

 doctrine of Natural Selection and Evolution are most 

 clearly manifested. But Darwin himself is only re- 

 sponsible for the conclusions drawn by other evolution 

 philosophers so far as they are logically contained in his 

 principles and methods of reasoning. 



Now, in Darwin's Origin of Species a Creator is 

 placed at the commencement of the process of organic 

 evolution and an intelligent Creator other than the 

 plastic powers of Nature which, however, his most 

 eminent followers have since set aside. The question 

 arises Are they justified in so doing on Darwinian 

 principles ? and the still graver question Are they justi- 

 fied on true and universal and philosophical principles ? 

 The former question I am inclined to answer in the 

 affirmative. For the Creator in the Origin of Species 



