all-adaptive

Updated: June 23, 2025

V. of "Transactions of the Zoölogical Society," he says, "that natural evolution, through secondary causes, by means of slow physical and organic operations through long ages, is not the less clearly recognizable as the act of all-adaptive Mind, because we have abandoned the old error of supposing it the result of a primary, direct and sudden act of creational construction.... The succession of species by continuously operating law is not necessarily a 'blind operation. Such law, however designed in the properties and successions of natural objects, intimates, nevertheless, a preconceived progress.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality