Natural Law in action: hypothesis of limited intelligence. Case of Unreason, Creation by Chance.
Breadth of Law seen in its general fitnesses, and grander unities. Exceptional effects in "Functioning."
Character of Mind in Nature. Law, type, idea. Adaptation even if purposed is not Arbitrary. A Supreme Will must be a sovereign Reason.
Perfection of Mind in Nature estimated from convergent fitnesses and correlations, as exemplified by Sight and Hearing. Also by their effects in producing Beauty, Happiness, and a sense of sympathy. Mind in Nature not bare intelligence, but possessing emotional attributes, not harsh nor unlovely, but tender and loveable.
Additional Note.
On the Doctrine of Chances applied to the structural Development of of the Eye, by Professor Pritchard.
CHAPTER V.
PRODUCTION AND ITS LAW.
"Life," said Dr. Johnson, "has not many things better than this:"—"we were," Boswell explains, "driving rapidly along in a post-chaise." But what if the two men, congratulating themselves upon their speed, could have read (with some approach to second-sight) Dr. Darwin's lines—