CONCLUSION 235 



' spontaneous generation/ ' natural selection/ ' sexual 

 selection/ have, as general explanatory principles of the 

 organic world, just as little meaning. They too will 

 disappear, just as the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis 

 have disappeared. 



Theories of evolution will remain, since everything 

 points to the fact that there was and is an evolution 

 of the organic world. This evolution, however, does 

 not express itself in quite impossible spontaneous 

 ' leaps ' from the inorganic to the organic, or from 

 plants to animals, and also not in plan and objectless 

 hither-and-thither variation, but in a constant main- 

 tenance of the harmony between construction and 

 function and the external conditions of life, and in 

 constant development of the bases, since ' bases ' and 

 these, too, for one definite end must exist, as the 

 result is always in one definite direction viz. the 

 purposeful, the vitally capable. 



Neither was life acquired by the organisms them- 

 selves, nor were the evolutional tendencies : both were 

 received from another source from the Creator. 1 



