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In one aspect the Law of Correlation of Growth 

 is (or at least may probably be) a Lav/ in the 

 strictest sense of the word ; that is to say, the 

 result of a Force acting according to its own 

 definite modes and measures of operation. But 

 the Law of Correlation of Growth in the other 

 aspect, is a law only in the sense (i) of an ob- 

 served order of facts ; and (2) of that Order de- 

 pending on Adjustment with a view to Purpose. 

 Many naturalists have spoken of the facts of 

 organic likeness as sufficiently accounted for by 

 referring them to Adherence to Type. Mr Dar- 

 win complains that this phrase, as an explanation 

 of organic likeness, is no explanation at all, but 

 amounts only to a re-statement of the facts in 

 another form of language. This is true ; but it is 

 equally true of his own phrase of Correlation of 

 Growth. " Adherence to Type " is not in the 

 nature of a Physical Cause, but in the nature of 

 a Mental Purpose. It is no explanation, therefore, 

 to those faculties of the mind which seek for 

 Methods of operation. In like manner " Correla- 

 tion of Growth" in the only sense in which it is 

 possible to connect it with the Origin of Species, 



