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just our flying machines to the tenuity of the air, 

 and our oversea and undersea boats to the density 

 and weight of the water, so Nature adjusts her 

 organisms to their environment. 



Man avails himself of all possible aids. His volun- 

 tary conquests of nature are many and are con- 

 stantly increasing, but his involuntary dependen- 

 cies upon her are many also. He did not launch him- 

 self into this world, and he did not give his body, 

 with all its wonderful organs and powers, the shape 

 it has, or elect to breathe or see or hear or breed or 

 eat or sleep. Something else determined all these 

 things for him. What is that something else? Our 

 fathers called it God; we call it Nature, because we 

 live in a scientific and not in a theological age. We 

 are pantheistic and not theistic. Our gods are every- 

 where, in everything created. Our minds are no 

 longer hampered by the idea of a maker and a thing 

 made, a ruler or a governor and a thing ruled or 

 governed. The unity of Nature and God is a concep- 

 tion fostered by science. We are compelled to adjust 

 our minds to the idea of a causeless universe, to 

 a universe without beginning and without ending, 

 without a maker or a designer. 



Our conception of cause and effect, or beginning 

 and ending, applies only on the surface of the earth; 

 where currents and counter-currents, action and re- 

 action and interaction, are in perpetual see-saw; 

 where every body rests upon some other body, and 



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