...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might...

...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might...

...is best indicated in the correspondence with Asa Gray. Writing on May 22, 1860, he said: "I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." And again, on June 5, 1861 : " I have been led to think more on this subject of late, and grieve...

...beneficence on all sides of us. ... I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws,1 with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance." It is ever thus in meek conciliant vein he writes concessively to all his intimate friends, — even...

...as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. ... I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, 1 with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance." It is...

...thing as the result of design."i In another letter he expresses his thought more fully : " I cannot be contented to view this wonderful universe, and...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me."2 In the end Darwin came to distinctly recognize the teleological nature of evolution. The old...

...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...details, whether good or bad, left to the working out cf what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole...

...chance. — IBID, vol. i. 316. I cannot anyhow be contented to view the wonderful universe, and specially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything...am inclined to look at everything as resulting from design and law. — IBID, vol. ii. 312. Research has already shown us reason to believe " that even...

...himself till the holidays come ? "I cannot, anyhow, be contented," says Darwin in i 860 (ii. 3 1 2), " to view this wonderful universe, and especially the...left to the working out of what we may call chance." Shall we suppose, then, that in the sight of some higher Power our battles in this small world are...

...natural selection preserves for the good of any being, have been designed." In still another passage:2 "I am inclined to look at everything as resulting...call ' chance.' Not that this notion at all satisfies me." This makes sufficiently clear Darwin's opinions at this time upon the theories of all his predecessors...