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MR. ROMANES, in his letter published in your number of Oct. 27 (vol. xxiv. p. 604) draws a distinction between the “Argument from Design as elaborated by the Natural Theologians of the past generation,” and another argument from design which he attributes to me, and which he describes as a “metaphysical” teleology—the idea of “an ultimate design pervading all nature, and blending into one harmonious Cosmos the combination and co-ordination of physical causes.”
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ARGYLL The Struggle of Parts in the Organism. Nature 25, 6–7 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025006c0
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