...accept Natural Selection ; to the last he has held it on his own terms ; and while, in reviewing Hackel, he is tenderly cautious not to set down his ' Story...conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as 1 can remember, when I wrote " The Origin of Species." ' Yet, while recording this suggestive statement,...

...belief to a condition of agnosticism, albeit with times, even in his later life, when he felt himself "compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent...mind in some degree analogous to that of man," and in which he deserved "to be called a theist."34 But is it so certain that evolution was the sole cause...

...result of blind chance or necessity." Such reflections at one time did indeed incline him strongly "to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man." When holding this view he thought that he might rightly be called a theist. Yet this conviction also...

...capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to...that of man : and I deserve to be called a theist. But then arises the doubt, Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from...

...Thinking Monon, the Universal Intelligence, the Universal Will. " When thus reflecting," says Darwin, " I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an...intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man." In this universal Monon, the body and soul of the universe must be united. Here and here only can we...

...extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility," of conceiving the universe as not being the work of " a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man," f is driven back into agnosticism by the question, " Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe,...

...capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to...that of man, and I deserve to be called a theist." It is somewhat remarkable that while Darwin felt assured that there was nothing in his scientific theories...

...the universe is not the result of chance"— or, as he expresses the same idea on another occasion, " I feel compelled to look to a First Cause, having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to man. But, then, with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which...

...the work of chance, and found himself compelled by a rational necessity to infer the existence of " a First Cause, having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man," 1 the doubt at once suggested itself, " Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed...

...capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look to...called a Theist. This conclusion was strong in my mind v about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of Species, and it is since that...