CHAPTER XXVI 



ALL ULTIMATE CAUSES INCOMPREHENSIBLE UN- 

 KNOWN NATURE OF CHEMICAL AFFINITY 

 AN OVERRULING POWER, KNOWN IN ITS WORKS 

 THE MIND CONCEIVES ITS OWN SEMBLANCE 

 ONLY THE PROBLEMS OF SIN AND DEATH 

 THE ANSWER OF EVOLUTION. 



IT has been shown that in every phenomenon the 

 final and ultimate nature of the energy involved, lies 

 beyond the comprehension of the human mind. For 

 instance, what is the action that constitutes Chemical 

 Affinity? The ultimate atoms that are the subject 

 of this force, and which constitute by their union our 

 physical frames and all the varieties of matter, are 

 they self-existing and essentially independent in their 

 intrinsic nature? Are they the molecular groupings 

 of one primordial dement of the ultimate atoms of 

 the Ether ? Or, finally, are they only the centres of 

 force, without other existence than their own internal 

 energies ; that differ as the vibrations of the rays of 

 light do, one from another, and thus varying in their 

 expression of force manifest the affinities of each 



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