24 EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



CHAPTER III. 



IMPOTENCE OF PALET'S CONCLUSION. THE TELEOLOGY 

 OF THE EVOLUTIONIST. 



Though the ideas of design, and of the foot, have come 

 together in our minds with sufficient spontaneity, we 

 yet feel that there is a difference — and a wide difference 

 if we could only lay our hands upon it — between the 

 design and manufacture of the ligament and tendons 

 of the foot on the one hand, and on the other the 

 design, manufacture, and combination of artificial 

 strings, pieces of wood, and bandages, whereby a model 

 of the foot might be constructed. 



If we conceive of ourselves as looking simultaneously 

 upon a real foot, and upon an admirably constructed arti- 

 ficial one, placed by the side of it, the idea of design, 

 and design by an intelligent living being with a body 

 and soul (without which, as has been already insisted 

 on, the use of the word design is delusive), will present 

 itself strongly to our minds in connection both with the 

 true foot, and with the model ; but we find another idea 

 asserting itself with even greater strength, namely, 

 that the design of the true foot is far more intricate, 

 and yet is carried into execution in far more masterly 

 manner than that of the model. We not only feel that 

 there is a wider difference between the ability, time, 



