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nates to his intelligent uses remain greater and more wonderful 
than the inventions to which they are applied. Are then the 
powers and substances of Nature which stand, as it were, 
waiting for the touch of the inventor's genius to make them 
available wherever mind shall lead the way, themselves mere 
things of chance or products of material law with no intent in 
their existence ? When made available do they proclaim 
intelligence, and yet is the marvellous property of availability 
only a meaningless phenomenon of matter ? Hitherto the 
phraseology of the doctrine of design, and the illustrations of 
the doctrine, have had a certain coarseness of fibre, suggesting 
a mechanical universe turned out by what Cowper styles “ the 
great Artificer of all that moves," and needin g the constant over- 
sight of the Maker to keep it in working order. The sublime 
personifications of the creation in the Bible have been literalized 
ley our matter-of-fact philosophy, as though the differential 
calculus could measure the astronomy of Job or of the 19th 
Psalm. But science, by bringing us into nearer contact with 
what Tyndall has called the “ subsensible world," has at once 
enlarged the sphere of our vision, and heightened its powers. 
Teleology addresses itself to some finer sense within. It 
widens its circle without changing its centre. The mechanism 
of the universe drops away, and we find or feel the Thought 
of the Infinite Mind projecting itself in the actual through 
finite forms, and combining and comprehending the whole in 
an ever-unfolding pui’pose. Hence, wo may say with von 
Baerenbach, “ Darwin has not rendered Teleology impossible 
under any and every form, but has conducted philosophical 
science to another and the true conception of design."* 
True, von Baerenbach would find the solution of the 
universe in Monism ; but his testimony from a scientific 
point of view shows that the question of Causality cannot be 
laid aside, and that, after all sciences, Nature persistently 
demands the Wherefore of her own phenomena. 
Zeller, of Berlin, in his paper read before the Academy of 
Science “ upon the Teleological and the Mechanical interpre- 
tations of Nature in their application to the universe," seeks 
to combine the necessary in Nature with the purposive in 
Reason. “ Since, on all sides, the investigation of Nature, so 
far as it has been carried, shows us a firm linking together of 
cause and effect, we must assumo from the coherence of all 
phenomena, that the same holds also of those which have not 
yet been investigated and explained, that everything in the 
* “ Gedankon ueber die Teleologie in dor N Uur,” von Friedrich von 
Baerenbach. Berlin, 1878, p. 5. 
