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Show X CONTENTS. PAGE founded, however, upon Orthodox ConceptionH, and opposed, not to Theism, but only to Intervention in Nature, while the Key-note of Dr. Hodge's System is Interference.-Views and Writings of St. Clair, Winchell, and Kingsley adverted to • 266 ARTICLE IX. CHARLES DARWIN: SKETCH ACCOMPANYING A PORTRAIT IN "NATURE." Dar.win's Characteristics and Work as a Naturalist compared with those of Robert Brown.-His Illustration of the Principle that "Nature abhors Close Fertilization."-His Impression upon Natural History exceeded only by Linnreus.-His Service in restoring Teleology to Natural History . 283 ARTICLE X. INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. Classification marks Distinctions where Nature exhibits Gradations.- Recovery of Forgotten Knowledge and History of what was known of Dionrea, Drosera, and Sarracenia • 289 .ARTICLE XI. INSECTIVOROUS AND CLIMBING PLANTS. Review of Darwin's Two Works upon these Subjects.-N o Absolute Marks for distinguishing between Vegetables and .A.nimals.New Observations upon the Sundews or Droseras.-Their Sensitiveness, Mov.ements, Discernment of the Presence and Appropriation of .Animal Matter.-Dionrea, and other Plants of the sanie Order.-Utricularia and Pinguicula.-Sarracenia and N epenthes.-Climbing Plants ; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and .Automatic Movement.-Capacities inherent in Plants generally, and apparently of no Service to them, developed and utilized by those which climb.-N atural Selection not a Complete Ex-planation . 308 CONTENTS. xi ARTICLE XII. DURATION AND ORIGINATION OF RACE AND SPECIES. P£GB PART I.-Do VarietieR in Plants wear out, or tend to wear out?- The Question considered in the Light of Facts, and in that of the Darwinian Thcory.-Conclusion that Races sexually propagated need not die of Old Age.-This Conclusion inferred from the Provisions and Arrangements in Nature to secure Cross-Fertilization of Individuals.-Reference to Mr. Darwin's Development of this View • 338 PART II.-Do Species wear out, and, if not, why not ?-Implication of the Darwinian Theory that Species arc unlimited in Existence.- Examination of an Opposite Doctrine maintained by Naudin.-Evidence that Species may die out from Inherent Causes only indirect and inferential from Arrangements to secure Wide Brceding.-Physiological Import of Sexes.Doubtful whether Sexual Reproduction with Wide Breeding is a Preventive or only a Palliative of Decrepitude in Species. -Darwinian Hypothesis must suppose the Former • 84~ ARTICLE XIII. EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY, The Opposition between Morphology and Teleology recoMiled by Darwinism, and the Latter reinstated.-Character of the New Teleology.-Purpose and Design distinguished.-Man has no Monopoly of the Latter.-Inference of Design from Adaptation and Utility legitimate; also in flume's Opinion irresistible,- The Principle of Design, taken with Specific Creation, totally insufficient and largely inapplicable ; but, taken with the Doctrine of the Evolution of Species in Nature, applicable, pertinent, and, moreover, necessary.-Tilustrations from Abortive Organs, supposed Waste of Being, etc.-All Nature being of a Piece, Design must either pervade or be absent from the Whole.-Its Absence not to be inferred because the Events take place in Nature.-Tilustration of the Nature and Province of Naturaf Selection.-It picks out, but does not origi- |