370 NA TURKS FORCES. 



stancy of its absolute energy, amid the everlasting revolution 

 and mutation of things." In such a cosmos no intelligent 

 Creator is required. The inexorable rule of blind nature 

 blind law is evident in the working of the everlasting, ever- 

 changing motor energy. Formation and destruction are the 

 invisible tools with which blind nature works, though 

 Strauss seems to speak of Nature's force, for he tells us that 

 Mr. Darwin has " demonstrated this force, this process of 

 Nature." Most readers will, I fear, find it difficult to 

 determine what Strauss means by the statement, and pro- 

 bably no one will be more astonished than Mr. Darwin 

 himself, when he discovers that he has demonstrated the 

 "force" of Nature. 



But, after all, the so-called " unchanged and unchange- 

 able " cosmos is surely ever changing, at least as far as man 

 himself can understand it. For man's estimate of cosmos 

 must be determined by the knowledge that he has acquired, 

 and so it must happen that this cosmos of to-day is very 

 different from our father's cosmos, while our sons will have to 

 deal with a cosmos very different from any of its predecessors. 



Man however cannot help seeking for the cause of man 

 as well as the cause of cosmos; but will he find the cause of 

 which he is in search either in the cosmos or in himself? 

 There is something in man's conception of man which has 

 prompted him to seek for a cause beyond cosmos. And 

 how, I would ask, is man, who cannot picture to himself at 

 one view who cannot see included, as it were, in one 

 mental image the phenomena he knows to be going on 

 in a minute particle of his body during each moment of 

 existence, to feel sure that he has formed an adequate con- 

 ception of Cosmos ? How can we prove that he who thinks 



