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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE CLASSICAL WEEKLY the living organism, we shall be left wondering still". Once again, in summing up, he notes how biologists have been swinging back to Aristotle. The paper concludes as follows: In wonderment, says Aristotle, does philosophy begin, and more than once he rings the changes on the theme. Now, as in the beginning wonderment and admiration are the portion of the biologist, as of all those who contemplate the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is. And if wonderment springs, as again Aristotle tells us, from ignorance of the causes of things, it does not cease when we have traced and discovered the proximate causes, the physical causes, the efficient causes of our phenomena. For beyond and remote from physical causation lies the end, the final cause of the philosopher, the reason why, in the which are hidden the problems of organic harmony and autonomy and the mysteries of apparent purpose, adaptation, fitness and design. Here, in the reign of teleology, the plain rationalism that guided us through the physical facts and causes begins to disappoint us, and intuition, which is of close kin to faith, begins to make herself heard. And so it is that, as in wonderment does all philosophy begin, so in amazement does Plato tell us that all our philosophy comes to an end. Ever and anon, in the presence of the Magnalia Naturae, we feel inclined to say with the poet: ov yap tI vwV yC KaXW(h, a&X a CrOTC yM TaVTa, KoVMels OdSv E'e OTOV v( .