CHAPTER X.

CHANGE, CAUSATION AND DESIGN.

§ 1. Old Theological objection to Chance. 2-4. Scientific version of the same. 5. Statistics in reference to Free-will. 6-8. Inconclusiveness of the common arguments here. 9, 10. _Chance as opposed to Physical Causation._ 11. _Chance as opposed to Design in the case of numerical constants._ 12-14. _Theoretic solution between Chance and Design._ 15. _Illustration from the dimensions of the Pyramid._ 16, 17. _Discussion of certain difficulties here._ 18, 19. _Illustration from Psychical Phenomena._ 20. Arbuthnott's Problem of the proportion of the sexes. 21-23. Random or designed distribution of the stars.

(_Note on the proportion of the sexes_.)