...it is difficult to reject all teleo.ogical explanations. Meanwhile it must be remembered that such explanations which explain at once all and nothing, can be but the last resource, when no other view can possibly be adopted. In the case of organised bodies there is no such...

...all that preceded it.' logical explanations. Meanwhile it must be remembered tl. — — planaiions which explain at once all and nothing, can be but the last resource, when no other view can possibly be adopted. T n the case of O'ganised bodies there is no...

..."horror vacui," and the like, have long been discarded. But in animated nature, adaptation—individual adaptation— to a purpose is so prominently marked,...adopted; and there is no such necessity for admitting the tdeological view in the case of organized bodies. The adaptation to a purpose which is characteristic...

...to say, that ebb and flood are the reaction of the organism of the earth upon the moon. In physics, all those explanations which were suggested by a teleological...view in the case of organized bodies. The adaptation of a purpose which is characteristic of organized bodies differs only in degree from what is apparent...

...of the earth upon the moon. In physics, all those explanations which were suggested by a tdeological view of nature, as "horror vacui," and the like, have...teleological view in the case of organized bodies." Like Carpenter in his review of the History of the Inductive Sciences, Schwann rejected the idea that...