We may easily imagine a simple-minded person asking how they came there, or what natural law could account for their lying in that position; and the physical antecedents of the fact--the geological history of the stones and the physiological structure of the men who moved them--give no answer.

As soon, however, as we hear that men placed them so, to guide wayfarers in the mist or in the night, our minds are satisfied.
Dr.Temple holds fast to that great word that infallible clue, Purpose.
He is not arguing from design.

He keeps his feet firmly on scientific ground, and asks, as a man of science asks, What is this?
and Why is this?
Then he finds that this question can proceed only from faith in coherence, and discovers that the quest of science is quest of Purpose.
To investigate Purpose is obviously to acknowledge Will.
Science requires, therefore, that there should be a real Purpose in the world.

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