Notes

1 These sayings of Kant and of Du Bois, and others like to them, have been the text of many discourses: see, for instance, Stallo〙s Concepts, p. 21, 1882; HûÑber, Biol. Centralbl. XIX, p. 284, 1890, etc. Cf. also Jellett, Rep. Brit. Ass. 1874, p. 1.

2 〜Quum enim mundi universi fabrica sit perfectissima, atque a Creatore sapientissimo absoluta, nihil omnino in mundo contingit in quo non maximi minimive ratio quaepiam eluceat; quamobrem dubium prorsus est nullum quin omnes mundi effectus ex causis finalibus, ope methodi maximorum et minimorum, aeque feliciter determinari queant atque ex ipsis causis efficientibus.〝 Methodus inveniendi, etc. 1744 (cit. Mach, Science of Mechanics, 1902, p. 455).

3 Cf. Opp. (ed. Erdmann), p. 106, 〜Bien loin d〙exclure les causes finales..., c〙est de lû  qu〙il faut tout dûˋduire en Physique.〝

4 Cf. p. 162. 〜La force vitale dirige des phûˋnomû´nes qu〙elle ne produit pas: les agents physiques produisent des phûˋnomû´nes qu〙ils ne dirigent pas.〝

5 It is now and then conceded with reluctance. Thus Enriques, a learned and philosophic naturalist, writing 〜della economia di sostanza nelle osse cave〝 (Arch. f. Entw. Mech. XX, 1906), says 〜una certa impronta di teleologismo quû  e lû  û´ rimasta, mio malgrado, in questo scritto.〝