280.
[293] Dr.Asa Gray, _e.g._, has thus understood Mr.Darwin.The Doctor says in his pamphlet, p.

38, "Mr.Darwin uses expressions which imply that the natural forms which surround us, because they have a history or natural sequence, could have been only generally, but not particularly designed,--a view at once superficial and contradictory; whereas his true line should be, that his hypothesis concerns the _order_ and not the _cause_, the _how_ and not the _why_ of the phenomena, and so leaves the question of design just where it was before." [294] "All science is but the partial reflexion in the _reason of man_, of the great all-pervading _reason of the universe_.

And the _unity_ of science is the reflexion of the _unity_ of nature and of the _unity_ of that supreme reason and intelligence which pervades and rules over nature, and from whence all reason and all science is derived." (Rev.Baden Powell, "Unity of the Sciences," Essay i.Sec.ii.p.

81.) [295] "The Reign of Law," p.

40.
[296] Though Mr.Darwin's epithets denoting design are metaphorical, his admiration of the result is unequivocal, nay, enthusiastic! [297] See "Habit and Intelligence," vol.i.p.