PART III. 



DEDUCTIONS DERIVED FROM THE ISSUE. 



I. 

 THE HISTOKY or LIFE. 



THE BEADING OF THE GREAT STONE BIBLE. 



NATURE has written the history of this world in no 

 uncertain terms. It is recorded in that wonderful 

 Book of books, that wonderful Stone Bible inter- 

 preted by geological science. It is absolutely The 

 Bible. It is not written by the hand of a man-like 

 creature. It is written by the distribution of the 

 forces, the innate forces of those objects we call atoms. 

 It is written by Nature. If we like to deify Nature, 1 

 and call Nature God. It is written by God. 



Man sees and feels these natural forces, impelling 

 him at every step, sometimes dreadful in their actions ; 

 he deifies them and calls the reactions the act of 

 God. The savage, from his lowly brain organization, 

 unable to rise to the higher generalizations of Modern 

 Science, seeks to idolize these forces and gives them 

 material forms ; 2 hence we have the various forms of 



1 The word " Nature" may be defined in relation to the Earth, as 

 matter, and the energies inherent in the atoms of which matter is 

 composed. 



2 " The arithmetical arrangement of the gods depends entirely 

 upon the intellectual faculties of the people concerned. In the period 



