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elude the idea of Purpose by success in discover- 

 ing the cause. It has been said, with perfect 

 truth, by a living naturalist who is of all 

 others most opposed to what he calls Theolo- 

 gical explanations in Science, that we may just 

 as well speak of a watch as the abode of a 

 " watch-force," as speak of the organisation of an 

 animal as the abode of a "vital Force/'* The 

 analogy is precise and accurate. The Forces by 

 which a watch moves are natural Forces. It is the 

 relation of interdependence in which those Forces 

 are placed to each other, or, in other words, the 

 adjustment of them to a particular Purpose, 

 which constitutes the "watch-force;" and the 

 seat of this Force — which is in fact no one 

 Force, but a combination of many forces, is 

 in the Intelligence which conceived that combi- 

 nation, and in the Will which gave it effect. The 

 mechanisms devised by Man are in this respect 

 only an image of the more perfect mechanism 

 of Nature, in which the same principle of Adjust- 

 ment is always the highest result which Science 

 can ascertain or recognise. There is this differ- 

 * Aristotle. By George H. Lewes. Page 87. 



