EVOLUTIONS OF ORGANIZATION. 27) 
if the whole area of space within our cognizance 
gives no hint of a development from which sprang 
the separate chemical elements so-called, what like- 
lihood is there that the span of their changes in 
time could come within our recognition? The 
phenomena peculiar to life, and summed up in 
development, we know have appeared by slow 
degrees ; and intelligence, an addition totally dif- 
ferent in kind, both from matter and from life, 
makes its appearance likewise by insensible gra- 
dation. 
If the development of each individual be related 
to a larger development as the lives of the tissue- 
elements are related to the life of an organism, and 
if that larger development proceeds in definite direc- 
tions to termini or adult conditions, I own that I 
can see nothing out of harmony. It has seemed to 
some of the ablest biologists that have ever lived that 
there is a vast amount of evidence that such ter- 
mini exist. But the prejudiced superstition that 
starts with the dogma that there can be no design 
nor aught that is complete in nature, because the 
laws of matter must be capable of accounting for 
everything, never deigns to consider the evidence of 
ordered evolution or completeness, but sets it aside 
with a sneer as “scholastic nonsense” and “arche- 
typal follies,’ and calls that attitude the “method 
