64 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



In like manner male birds are usually adorned 

 with brilliant plumage. This is accounted for 

 on the ground that they are more attractive, 

 and thus they propagate their race, while the 

 plainer ones have few or no descendants. Thus 

 all design is studiously and laboriously ex- 

 cluded from every department of nature. 



The preceding pages contain only a small 

 part of the evidence furnished by Mr. Darwin's 

 own writings, that his doctrine involves the 

 denial of all final causes. The whole drift of 

 his books is to prove that all the organs of 

 plants and animals, all their instincts and 

 mental endowments, may be accounted for by 

 the blind operation of natural causes, without 

 any intention, purpose, or cooperation of God. 

 This is what Professor Huxley and others call 

 " the creative idea," to which the widespread 

 influence of his writings is to be referred. 



Testimony of the Advocates of the Theory. 



It is time to turn to the exposition of Dar- 

 winism by its avowed advocates, in proof of the 

 assertion that it excludes all teleology. 



The first of these witnesses is Mr. Alfred 

 Eussel Wallace, himself a distinguished natu- 

 ralist. Mr. Darwin informs his readers, that as 



