designed or undesigned; for that would be to meddle in an extraneous business, in Metaphysic.

It is enough that there are objects, alone explicable according to natural laws which we can only think by means of the Idea of purposes as principle, and also alone internally cognisable as concerns their internal form, in this way. In order, therefore, to remove the suspicion of the slightest assumption, — as if we wished to mix with our grounds of cognition something not belonging to Physic at all, viz. a supernatural cause, — we speak in Teleology, indeed, of nature as if the purposiveness therein were designed, but in such a way that this design is ascribed to nature, i.e. to matter. Now in this way there can be no misunderstanding, because no design in the proper meaning of the