Cause and Effect. 5 1 



well expunge the satellites of Jupiter or the planet 

 Neptune from our astronomies. 



But let us for the sake of the argument grant that 

 matter may originate life. As it is impossible for 

 us to accept anything as a cause, unless it is ade- 

 quate to produce the effect, we look at once for the 

 cause of man. We know with certainty that his 

 body is produced. Physical man is therefore an 

 effect. If matter and the physical forces produce 

 lite, they must also produce life with all the adjuncts 

 which we find in physical man, or his creation is 

 still to he accou It is not enough to say 



that a germ was originated by matter, and that germ 

 by developm- me man. To be satisfied with 



this statement is to deceive ourselves with words. 

 That germ must have had in it from the beginning 

 all the capacity of developing into man. It must 

 have been sufficient to produce man. And no one 

 can intelligently believe that matter could produce 

 such a germ, unless he believes matter could produce 

 a man in his highest possible physical and intellec- 

 tual development. One result is just as wonderful {J5A 

 as the other ; one supposition is just as reasonable as ^-L *"* 

 the other. And any attempt to account for man 

 upon this globe from a germ not as wonderful as 

 man, and requiring as high creative power, is simply 

 illogical and a deceiving of ourselves with sophistry 

 Like an attempt to produce force where no force ex- 

 , it is worthy of the wildest dreamers of perpetual 

 motion. We have now in the Bible a simple account i *-' -' 

 of creation. A Great First Cause is introduced. 



