52 Prof. Owen on Life and Species. 
under the Gromiine, Milioline, and Lituoline types, has effect- 
ed its ends independently of inner volitions or of outer selec- 
tions. Certain incrusting forms seem by the presence of sili- 
ceous spicula to have been derived from sponges ; but no ex- 
planation presents itself for such transitional changes, save the 
fact of anomalous, monstrous births—as these varieties, and 
the whole assemblage of alternate-generative phenomena, would 
ife,’ 
be called ‘ in high life. 
depends on a fortuitous concourse of atoms. A purposive 
route of development and change, of correlation and interde- 
pendence, manifesting intelligent Will, is as determinable in 
the succession of races as in the development and organization 
of the individual. Generations do not vary accidentally, in - 
any and every direction ; but in preordained, definite, and cor- 
To doubt the fairness were to want an eye; 
To doubt the goodness were to want a heart! 
< Derivation’ holds that every species changes, in time, by 
ue of inherent tendencies thereto. ‘Natural Selection’ 
holds that no such change can take place without the influence 
oe altered external circumstances educing or selecting such 
change. eee sah : 
‘Derivation’ sees among the effects of the innate tendency © 
to change, noid tear altered surrounding circumstances, @ 
manifestation of creative power in the variety and beauty of | 
the results: and, in the ultimate forthcoming of a being sus- 
ceptible of appreciating such beauty, evidence of the preor- 
daining of such relation of power to the appreciation. ‘ Nat- 
ural Selecti hat if ornament or beauty, in 
. 
are lection’ acknowledges that if 
