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woven with luck, there is no doubt about its being 

 design; why, then, should the design which must 

 have attended organic development be other than this ? 

 If the thing that has been is the thing that afeo shall 

 be, must not the thing which is be that which also 

 has been? Was there anything in the phenomena 

 of organic life to militate against such a view of 

 design as this ? Not only? was there nothing, but 

 this view made things; plain, as. the connecting of 

 heredity and memory had already done, which till 

 now had been without explanation. Eudimentary 

 organs were no longer a hindrance to our acceptance 

 of design, they became weighty arguments in its 

 favour. 



I therefore wrote " Evolution Old and New," with 

 the object partly of backing up " Life and Habit," and 

 showing the easy rider it admitted, partly to show 

 how superior the old view of descent had been to 

 Mr, Darwin's, and partly to reintroduce design into 

 organism. I wrote " Life and Habit " to show that 

 our mental and bodily acquisitions' were mainly stores 

 of memory : I wrote " Evolution Old and New " to add 

 that the memory must be a mindful and designing 

 memory. 



I followed up these. two books with "Unconscious 

 Memory," the main object of which was to show how 

 Professor Hering of Prague had treated the connection 

 between memory and heredity-; to show, again, how 

 substantial was the difference between Von Hartmann 

 and myself in spite of some little superficial resem- 

 blance ; to put forward a suggestion as regards the 



