The italics throughout the book are generally mine, except in the quotations from Miss Seward, where they are all her own.

I am anxious also to take the present opportunity of acknowledging the obligations I am under to my friend Mr. H. F. Jones, and to other friends (who will not allow me to mention their names, lest more errors should be discovered than they or I yet know of), for the invaluable assistance they have given me while this work was going through the press. If I am able to let it go before the public with any comfort or peace of mind, I owe it entirely to the carefulness of their supervision.

I am also greatly indebted to Mr. Garnett, of the British Museum, for having called my attention to many works and passages of which otherwise I should have known nothing.

March 31, 1879.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
Statement of the Question—Current Opinion adverse toTeleology [1]
CHAPTER II.
The Teleology of Paley and the Theologians [12]
CHAPTER III.
Impotence of Paley's Conclusion—The Teleology of theEvolutionist [24]
CHAPTER IV.
Failure of the First Evolutionists to see their Positionas Teleological [34]
CHAPTER V.
The Teleological Evolution of Organism—The Philosophyof the Unconscious [43]