422 REVIEWS. 
And here permit us to repeat, by way of explanation, that Darwin- 
ism does not mean the theory of development or derivation, pure and sim- 
ple, as any insist, but that explanation of its ‘action by the law of 
natural din which is given by Wallace and Darwin. We have no 
objections to urge against the theory cett accounts for the origin of 
species by descent from some ancient and simpler forms, which might be 
is evidently only a secondary law, active perhaps in all species but sub- 
n race em ile its by means of more subtle agencies than we are 
aR ES 
At the same timeI must confess, that this teory has i NaNe of requiring en iner 
n o! what we can 
avoid considering as the ultimate aim and outcome of all or; rganized ex xistimeé — füitefléctüMt, 
ever-advancing, spiritual man. It therefore implies, that the great laws which govern t 
ssary part of tho 
just as the action of all surrounding Pier is one of the agencies in vivre development. 
ould be e put forwar 
I m 
of * dise selection. tis JM Misc y "unconscious 5 inttigence” pe all organic nature. 
put for y ; but to my mind it has the 
double Mironis tage of intelligibl di ble of kind of proof. Itis more 
probab e, that bed dee nw i tee — ke ns. to discover it; but Here pesme few e, to be 
te origin 
of life and organization. 
n this connection read the original thoughts in the closing paragraphs 
on “The Nature of Matter,” ** Matter is Force,” ** All Force is probabl 
Will-force," expressed in brief thus: **if, therefore, we have traced one 
force, however minute, to an origin in our own wILL, while we have no 
knowledge of any other primary cause of force, it does not seem an im- 
m conclusion that all force may be will-force; and thus, that the 
universe is, not merely dependent on, but Veri is, the WILL of 
vata Tub igesie or of one Supreme Intelligence 
AMERICAN MICROSCOPES AND THEIR Menits.* — The first of these 
papers is an elaborate attempt at an account of American microscopes 
and their merits; but should have more properly been entitled an attempt 
to describe the Beside made by R. B. Tolles, as of the twenty-five 
which it covers, twenty are ee to Tolles. The second article 
*On the North American Microscope. By Dr. H. pe igh Cambridge, Mass. Max Schultz’s 
Archiv fur Microscopische Anatomie. Bonn. 2d No. 1870. A communication by D1 H. Hagen 
on his experience in the use s the mieroseo Proceedin ere of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, vol. xii, p. 357. March 10th, 1869. A verted apn on Tolles’s Scheick’s 
microscopes, to the Boston sime of Natural History, November 10th, 1869, Unpublished. 
