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also, and the matter which they act upon, must also have their 

 cause and source. And as the universe is one, every atom 

 bound to every other atom, that Cause is One; being one. 

 it must be Self-existent, Infinite, Eternal. 



" In this wonderful order of the universe," says Richerand, 

 " every being is perfect in itself; each being is best constructed 

 for the purpose it is to fulfil; and all are equally admirable, in 

 living and animated nature, from the lowest vegetation to the 

 sublimity of thought." 



As all plants and trees in their myriad varieties are developed 

 from germ cells made of the same materials, surrounded by the 

 same elements, it must be that they vary as the life-force, which 

 presides over their growth, varies. For thousands of years we 

 have had a constant reproduction of the same species of plants 

 and animals. The grain of wheat found in the hand of an 

 Egyptian mummy embalmed three thousand years ago is the 

 wheat of to-day, and its life, sometimes, is not extinct. Cedars 

 still grow on Mount Lebanon. The horse, the dog, the 

 elephant, have not changed their specific characters. The 

 races of four-handed animals have not grown more intelligent. 



It is a law that like causes produce like effects. But in the 

 same field, with the same soil, air, moisture, temperature, the 

 same material conditions, we have growing, wheat, maize, 

 beans, potatoes, a hundred beautiful and odorous flowers, 

 each with different forms, colours and perfumes, medicinal 

 plants, narcotics, violent and acrid poisons. Something more 

 than inert matter and blind forces are required. 



We cannot escape from recognising intelligence as directing 

 force, by the notion of continuity by saying that matter, force, 

 and life are eternal. The mind cannot conceive of a train of 

 effects with no cause. The earth gives abundant proofs that it 

 was at one time without organic life when its elements were 

 melted with fervent heat, and when water existed only in its 

 two elements, hydrogen and oxygen, or in a state of vapour. 



