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all things in related systems; had the question been asked him, he 
would probably have replied that the Divine Mind desired the pure joy 
of seeing beauty in the work of His hands, and “Beauty consists in 
order and arrangement” (V, p. 118), as goodness consists in the capac- 
ity to fulfill the purpose for which it was intended. 
However firm Lord Monboddo’s decision in regard to the doctrine 
of special creation, he deserves credit as one of the writers who helped 
to keep alive the evolution theory. He was prominent among those 
eighteenth-century philosophers who revived the Greek evolution ideas 
in theoretical form; one of the men who struggled in the “dim specula- 
tion” stage of the discovery of the law, and whose labors profited Charles 
Darwin so richly when he “came in for the proof” in the middle of the 
next century. 
