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. i lived." \\'ith the feeling expressed in these 

 two sentences I most cordially sympathise. I 

 have omitted two sentences which come between 

 them, describing briefly the hypothesis of " the 

 " origin of species by natural selection," because 

 I have always felt that this hypothesis does not 

 contain the true theory of evolution, if evolution 

 there has been, in biology. Sir John Herschel, in 

 expressing a favourable judgment on the hypo- 

 thcsr 1 . of zoological evolution, with, however, some 

 rvation in respect to the origin of man, objected 

 to the doctrine of natural selection, that it was too 

 like the Laputan method of making books, and 

 that it did not sufficiently take into account a 

 continually guiding and controlling intelligence. 

 This seems to me a most valuable and instructive 

 criticism. I feel profoundly convinced that the 

 argument of design has been greatly too much 

 ht of in recent zoological speculations, 

 ainst frivolities of teleology, such as 

 arc t<> l>c found, not rarely, in the notes of learned 

 unentators on Paley's "Natural Theology," has 

 I believe had a temporary effect in turning atten- 



