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By design is meant the intelligent and volun- 

 tary selection of an end, and the intelligent 

 and voluntary choice, application, and control 

 of means appropriate to the accomplishment of 

 that end. That design, therefore, implies in- 

 telligence, is involved in its very nature. No 

 man can perceive this adaptation of means to 

 the accomplishment of a preconceived end, 

 without experiencing an irresistible conviction 

 that it is the work of mind. No man does 

 doubt it, and no man can doubt it. Darwin 

 does not deny it. Haeckel does not deny it. 

 No Darwinian denies it. What they do is to 

 deny that there is any design in nature. It is 

 merely apparent, as when the wind of the 

 Bay of Biscay, as Huxley says, " sejects the 

 right kind of sand and spreads it in heaps upon 

 the plains." But in thus denying design in 

 nature, these writers array against themselves 

 the intuitive perceptions and irresistible convic- 

 tions of all mankind, — a barrier which no man 

 has ever been able to surmount. Sir William 

 Thomson, in the address already referred to, 

 says : " I feel profoundly convinced that the 

 argument of design has been greatly too much 

 lost sight of in recent zoological speculations. 

 Reaction against the frivolities of teleology, 



