Show w Neither Darwinism nor any other theory the-ory in science or philosophy can give more Nature than a secondary explanation of phenomena phenome-na Some deeper power or cause always has Moves in to bo postulated The underlying fundamental funda-mental causes are and probably ever will Her Own er wn remain not only unknown but even inconceivable Way incon-ceivable by us The mysterious power we term life l which alone renders possible the production By ALFRED WALLACE from a few of the chemical elements of such diverse fabrics us bone and skin horn and hair muscle and nerve and brain cells which from identical soil water und air manufactures all the infinitely varied < l products of the vegetable kingdom king-dom the thousand delicious fruits for our use and enjoyment the endless end-less woods and fibers gums and oils and resins to serve the purposes of our ever developing arts and manufactures will surely never be explained ex-plained as many suppose they will hein terms of mere matter and motion But beyond even these marvels is the yet greater marvel of that ever present organizing and guiding power whichto take a single example generation after generation and even year after year during the life of the individual builds up anew that most wonderful congeries of organs the birds covering of feathers Xot only is a feather a miracle i of complex structure in every minutest part adapted for most important and even vital ends but it may be safely stated that no two feathers on j l any bird are absolutely identical i varying in contour in curvature in rigidity rigid-ity in i size by almost imperceptible gradations so that each fulfills its special purpose And beyond this in the great majority of cases these feathers are adorned with colors which arc infinitely varied and which we can so often perceive to be of use to the individual the sex or the species that we conclude all to be so But to produce the result of well defined and constant colors shades and patterns on the outer surface of the bird each feather has to be colored on that portion of its surface which is not overlapped by the adjoining ad-joining feathers at the time when the color is needed nnd this is invariably in-variably the case Every attempt to explain these phenomena utterly breaks down so that now even the extreme monists such as Ilacckcl are driven to the supposition that every ultimate cell is a conscious intelligent individual that knows where to go and what to do pr |