of Darwin’s Treatise on the Origin of Species. 231 
arrived at, where we can imitate the arrangement, and ourselves 
produce the result at will, as we could with the pump, and also 
with the billiard-balls. 
And here I would suggest that your billiard-table with the 
case of collision, answers well toa machine. In both, a result 
is produced by indirection,—by applying a force out of line of 
the ultimate fisteeteny, And, as I should feel as confident that a 
man intended to raise water who was working a pump-handle, 
as if he was bringing it up in pails-full from below by means of 
_ aladder, so, after due examination of the billiard-table and its 
ca, 
a 
different occasions, I had before wounded persons by the same, 
or other indirect and apparently aimless actions 
. “ an object appeared to be gained in the result, 7. ¢., that defi- 
hat design on my ‘part must be presumed from the nature of the 
Tesultg j—that, though design may have been wanting in any one 
