Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.Chauncey Wright
Strictly speaking, Natural Selection is not a cause at all, but is the mode of operation of a certain quite limited class of causes.
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
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This does not deny, however, that they may be, as truths, the conclusions of other processes to wit, the inductions of experience.
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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