Chapter 692

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But in a very different manner to that pictured by Hæckel as an “evolution by Natural Selection in the struggle for existence” (Pedigree of Man, “Sense Organs,” p. 335; Aveling’s Trans.). The mere “thermal sensibility of the skin,” to hypothetical light-waves, is absurdly incompetent to account for the beautiful combination of adaptations existing in the eye. We have shown that “natural selection” is a pure myth when credited with the origination of variations, as the “survival of the fittest” can only take place after useful variations have sprung up, together with improved organisms. Whence came the “useful variations,” which developed the eye? Only from “blind forces ... without aim, without design”? The argument is puerile. The true solution of the mystery is to be found in the impersonal Divine Wisdom, in its Ideation—reflected through Matter.