It really does appear that marks of Design and the footprints of a Designer are in common sense very nearly one and the same thing. If we concentrate our attention on the former, we are looking at an object on the side of certain properties,--that is, of certain subjectively perceived relations. For instance, we may think of the eye only as an optical instrument wonderfully constituted, and enumerate the parts of its visual apparatus. But the moment we speak of this apparatus as a provision _intentionally_ made for sight, we have introduced the idea of a Designer in the strongest sense of the word. Now, it is difficult to think of anything as an example of intelligent arrangement, and at the same time give no hint even to our own thoughts of arranging Intelligence. We can hardly look through a pane of glass and admire the perfect transparency of _one_ surface to the exclusion of the _other_! We are not now speaking of what _might_ be done, if attempted by a man so profoundly skilled in analytics that "He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side." We are rather speaking of what it is _natural_ to do. And it may be doubted whether anybody thinks of a design _as_ design very long without thinking also of the Designer. One other remark is suggested by the reference to _process_ as contradistinguished from _product_. Here, again, the real question is, How far is such a distinction maintainable in fact? Does it rest upon any definite separation in Nature? The exact contradictory is the truth; taking the world as it is, the distinction, though clear in thought, becomes essentially fluent when objectively regarded. What we call a production one moment, we say is a process the next. You have, for example, a galvanic current, produced by certain chemical combinations, and often a product _per se_ of some importance. Yet the current itself is a part of the electrotyping process. Suppose this done, you have your electrotype--your coin,--a hard fact,--a solid production, bright, beautiful, admirable! But we will suppose you, while devising all this, to have a further view;--the coin is to be employed in the process of imposture. Here again comes a result--a great fraud committed; but this is not all. The fraudulent procedure turns out a very useful police-trap, and your chemical combination sends the last actor on the scene to Portland, for at least ten years. Consider in this brief history the scientific arrangements, material conditions, and workmanlike execution, discernible in its earlier parts; then, see how mind becomes gradually predominant, and how Law, based on ideas of corrective justice, enters the series. Add the judge and jury, and you admit the force of intellect,--deliberating, deciding, putting further activities in motion; till, perhaps, if the reformatory process succeeds, Portland may have the honour of giving to society the welcome product of (as times go) a passably honest man. We