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nebula and the elusive spirit thereof. But the irre- 

 ducibles — the stuff out of which worlds were spun — 

 had a nature such that in certain conditions a solar 

 system, one out of many, established itself; and a 

 unit in it, one out of many, became our earth. And 

 the nature of things was such that changes occurred 

 which made living organisms possible in an environ- 

 ment which was not fatally unfriendly to them. Un- 

 friendly to some, no doubt, but there was always a 

 remnant; and that viable remnant has now covered 

 the earth and filled the sea with victorious insurgent 

 life. 



But preparing a home for life was not all, and 

 favoring the emergence of bio-psychical creatures was 

 not all ; for far in the future was the rational mind of 

 man, prying into the facts, puzzling over them, in 

 part understanding them, and if this also was an 

 outcome of natural evolution, in other words of the 

 marvellous endowment which the elements had in the 

 beginning, then there is no way, even if we wished, of 

 escaping the conclusion that what we call material is 

 also psychical, for there can be nothing in the end 

 which was not also present in kind in the beginning. 

 Therefore, we say, in the beginning was the Logos; 

 in the beginning was Mind. 



"Still," the critic may urge, "you are clogged by 

 anthropomorphism. Your words suggest a Creator 

 who is like unto one who prepares a vessel for a long 

 voyage, with stores of energy, with devices to meet 

 emergencies, and with self-steering gear. Your words 

 suggest the leader of an expedition who thinks out 



