MAN IN NATURE 207 



the Creator, so must our mental constitution ; and 

 man as a reasoning and conscious being must be made 

 in the image of his Maker. If we discard the idea of 

 an intelligent Creator, then mind and all its powers 

 must be potentially in the atoms of matter or in the 

 forces which move them ; but this is a mere form of 

 words, and most unscientific, since it requires us to 

 attribute to matter properties which experiment does 

 not show it to possess. Thus the existence of man 

 is not only a positive proof of mind in nature, but 

 affords the strongest possible evidence of a higher 

 creative mind, from which that of man emanates. 

 YEven on the principle of evolution, no lower power 

 could have produced the universe than the mind 

 which has been evolved from it, and the power which 

 did this must have been at least as much greater, and 

 more intelligent, as the universe exceeds human power 

 and human capacities to fathom its mysteries. Thus?, 

 we return to the Pauline idea that the power and 

 divinity of the Creator are proved by the works 

 which He has made. Legitimate science can say 

 nothing more and nothing lessj 



But even Science may be permitted to point to 

 what lies beyond her domain, and to indicate the 

 probability that the God who has in the long geologic 

 ages fitted the earth for man, and endowed it with so 

 many evidences of His own power and wisdom, and 

 who has made us in His own image, has not left us as 

 orphans, but has given us a revelation of His will, and 



