1, p.

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[290] Professor Huxley goes on to say that the mechanist may, in turn, demand of the teleologist how the latter knows it was so intended.

To this it may be replied he knows it as a necessary truth of reason deduced from his own primary intuitions, which intuitions cannot be questioned without _absolute_ scepticism.
[291] The Professor doubtless means the _direct_ and _immediate_ result.
(See Trans.Zool.Soc.

vol.v.p.

90.) [292] "Natural Selection," p.