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whctlicr of Illinois iiiiinitc bcynnd llic jxiwcr df llii- niicroscopc. or of tliiiijrs 



vast Ik'.VoIhI I lie Ic.-K'll of I lie Iclcscopr. I lie si .eel n .x-n) il'. or lllr cM I'M. from 



the su|)|iosilioiis clcclr n one IiimkI. Io IIic miiilily siiiis nml llic iioImiIoiis 



still- drift of iiiilKiiiiKlcd sjijn'c on tlic oilier. It :il-^o scciiis to iiic lluit tliis 

 ccrtaiiity cxtciuls to nil tliiiii;s \ isihic <ir iii\ isihic. aiiiiiiiitc or iiiaiiiiiiale. 

 physical or iioii-i»liysiciil. and that all arc in the iiicscapaldc grasp of that 

 law. If so. all aro thci-oforc eipially within the coniprchi'iision and the de- 

 sign of that supivnie intoUigcncc It also scoiiis to mo that wliile our world 

 is only a comparatively insignitieaiil atom in an apparently houndless uni- 

 verse, the evidence given iis hy the instruments devised by science shows that 

 that universe is honiogenoiis. and that t he differences in its various members 

 is a difference Tiot due to ditTereiices in their eonipositioii or to laws by 

 which they are governed, hut to differences in the stages of their growth 

 or development: tli.-it all of the things in that univer.e have always been, 

 and always will he. including those thin,gs to whicli we give the names 

 matter and force. As the scientist api'arently feels Justified in using 

 liis ima.ginatioii hy way of supitlenieiit to his knowledge, so my imagin- 

 ation has included under the terms ■foi'ce" and ••eiiei'gy" other things 

 than those which conform to the so-called law of tlie conservation of 

 energy: — such as gravitation, and life, with other possible ami iirobable 

 undiscovered, undifferentiated, or unname<l forces oi- modes of energy; 

 that nature is only a name for that which lies hacU of all those things, — - 

 that supreme intelligence: that the so-called laws of nature are .simply 

 attributes of that sui»reme govi'rning ]M)wer or entity, and the so-called 

 forces simply the nu'thods by which that intelligence makes itself manifest. 

 In my ignorance I am able to find in the i»hysical luiiverse only three 

 ultimate and fundamental things, vi/ : the action of that supreme intelli- 

 gence of which I have .sjioken. matter or substance, and force or energy — 

 force and energy meaning to me only ditfereiit i)liases of the same thing. 

 To me. matter and force are inseiiarable. and I cannot imagine one as exist- 

 ing apart from the other. Science tells us of ni:iny elements. b;it to me 

 tlu'y are all resolvalile into one elemeiitar\ >ubst:nice. -the various so- 

 called elements being due to the manner in which thi' electrons con. pos- 

 ing them are combined. To me there is only one elementary force, all the 

 various so-called forces being due to the manner in which that one ele- 

 mentary force manifests itself under varying condit+ons. My imagination 

 carries me further, and to me life seems to be nothing more than one of 

 those forces.- nature's organizing and con tructive force, nature's master 

 builder: that germs are its trestlehcards on which it finds the iierfect plans 

 for the structures it is to build, whether that structure is intended to be a 

 tree, an earthworm, or a man: that protoi)lasm .-ind germs have not Just 

 happene(l. but that they are a part of the plan of that supreme intelli-jeiice : 

 that each germ embodies an idea of that suprenu' intelligence, and that in 

 each of these germs life, the builder, finds every detail of the future tre(>. 

 plant, flower, or aninml. True. I have been told that in aninnil life, uj) to a 

 certain stiige in the development of the embryo, it is not ixtssilde for us 

 to distinguish between the human embryo and that of other animals. While 

 this may all be true, is it not also true that life never encounters any such 

 ditticulty'.' < >n the contrary, when life begins its work with a given germ, 

 is it not plain that it knows exactly what the finished jiroduct is to be. 



