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of graceful forms and brilliant hues (forms and hues which 
it would be idle, even ridiculous to ascribe to utilitarian 
causes) ; the other, with its endless varieties of habits and 
instincts, its innumerable phases of organs, limbs, and 
systems, in which type is ever persistent and dominant, 
with its gradually increasing complexity of mechanism (in 
the contemplation of which the mind is unable to divest 
itself of the idea of design) ; all this, and more — the human 
intellect, human affections and aspirations — we must believe 
to be the results of only a mode of motion, or else we must 
acknowledge the presence of an influence the nature of 
which we can at presence but faintly attempt to conceive. 
If we accept this latter view of evolution, the speculations 
of Mr. Wallace, and the views of Mr. Darwin, which Oscar 
Schmidt appears to consider regrettable, are seen to be the 
incomplete expression of, perhaps, the noblest conception of 
the nineteenth century. 
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