THE GOOD DEVILS 



springs from a laudable devotion to the state and to 

 the good of all, got out of its banks and brought on 

 the World War, but the flood has subsided and will 

 probably be so dyked that it can never get out 

 again. It will find its outlet in the arts of peace. 



IV 



The so-called laws of Nature were not designed 

 and decreed as our human laws are. There is no 

 great lawgiver. Her laws are a sequence of events 

 and activities; this sequence has worked itself out 

 through countless ages. Nothing in the universe 

 was designed in the human sense: it was not first 

 a thought in some one's mind, then to become an 

 act or a contrivance. This concept does not ex- 

 press the mystery of creation. There is a constant 

 becoming; there was no beginning, there can be 

 no ending. There is perpetual change and revolu- 

 tion, perpetual transfer and promotion, but noth- 

 ing that can be explained in terms of our human 

 experience and achievement. The world and all it 

 holds were created as the flower is created in the 

 spring, as the snowflake is created in the winter, as 

 the cloud is created in the summer sky. Man was 

 created as the chick is created in the egg. Man has 

 had a long day of creation; he has been becoming 

 man since the first dawn of life in the old Palaeozoic 

 seas. His horse and his dog have been becoming 

 what we behold them through all the geologic 



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