True, he did not know he was a teleologist, but he was none the less a teleologist for this.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
What the Darwinian does is to deny the validity of the evidence which the teleologist brings to prove his case.
"A Grammar of Freethought"
Chapman Cohen
In all these cases, therefore, our teleologist in the light of fuller knowledge would be compelled to conclude at least this much-that the adaptations which he had so greatly admired when he supposed that they were all due to contrivance in anticipation of the existing phenomena, cease to furnish the same evidence of intelligent design when it is found that no one of them was prepared beforehand by any independent or external cause.
"Thoughts on Religion"
George John Romanes