THE FOUNDATION OF EVOLUTION 



to be what it really is childish and for children, 

 and naturally leading to the very proper question, 

 put by all wise children and not yet answered by 

 the wisest parent of the old school, &quot;Who made 

 God?&quot; Once, however, the doctrine of the conser 

 vation of energy is of universal acceptance, and 

 as widely understood as accepted, the theistic 

 conception will change, and the Deity will be re 

 garded as the All-Sustainer and All-Upholder, as 

 Goethe has it. In short, while the conception of a 

 personal Deity is retained, the theist will endeavor 

 to think of Him as the eternal upholder of what 

 science has shown to be eternal energy; and for 

 the old notion of creation will be substituted that 

 of a perpetual creation - &quot;new every morning.&quot; 

 This idea of creation, in its turn, will soon become 

 indistinguishable save that there will always be 

 quibblers from the philosophic idea which is ex 

 pressed as the evolution of the &quot;Infinite and Eter 

 nal Energy from which all things proceed.&quot; 



But if we recall our category of the Cosmos, it 

 will be seen that the law of the conservation of 

 energy is without entire applicability; for it is 

 simply irrelevant and meaningless when applied to 

 mind, of which no quantitative, but only qualita 

 tive, estimates are possible. But to make this 

 admission is not to say that the basis of evolution 

 is built upon only half the facts of the all; upon 

 not-mind but not upon mind. For modern psy 

 chology has clearly shown, in a hundred works 

 besides the Synthetic Philosophy, that the law of 



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