194 NOMOS. 



g innm g tne eartn was without form and 



dent to the void, and darkness was upon the face of 



creation of A 



Adam. the deep. There was no light before the 



first day. And if there was no light, does it not 

 follow that there could have been no motion, no 

 heat, no chemical action? Such, indeed, is the 

 conclusion which must be drawn from the premises ; 

 and so strong is the conviction upon which it is 

 founded, that we cannot conceive it possible that the 

 heavenly bodies should have begun to move until 

 the fiat had been given, Let there be light. 



But be this as it may, there is no question that 

 light is involved in the idea of natural law, and that 

 the fact of its presence may be regarded as another 

 argument that the law which rules in nature is the 

 law which is revealed to us in the experiments of 

 the laboratory. 



