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isten von Profession," would not cheerfully 

 adopt. His distinction between a higher and 

 lower teleology is of no account in this dis- 

 cussion. What is the teleology to which, he 

 says, Mr. Darwin has given the death-blow, 

 the extracts given above clearly show. The 

 eye, Huxley says, was not made for the pur- 

 pose of seeing, or the ear for the purpose of 

 hearing. " According to teleology," he say3, 

 " each organism is like a rifle bullet fired 

 straight at a mark ; according to Darwin, or- 

 ganisms are like grapeshot, of which one hits 

 something and the rest fall wide." 1 



Bilchner. 



Dr. Louis Biichner, president of the medical 

 association of Hessen-Darmstadt, etc., etc., is 

 not only a man of science but a popular writer. 

 Perhaps no book of its class, in our day, has 

 been so widely circulated as his volume on 

 " Kraft und Stoff," Matter and Force. It has 

 been translated into all the languages of Eu- 

 rope. He holds that matter and force are 

 inseparable ; there cannot be the one without 

 the other ; both are eternal and imperishable ; 

 neither can be either increased or diminished ; 



1 Lay Sermons, etc. p. 331. 



