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other suns and their satellites or companions, disclosed 

 to us by the telescope from these subordinate stars or 

 systems, scarcely numerable by man, to the Milky Way, 

 which embodies them all and from this again to other 

 nebulous systems, whatever their nature, now counted 

 almost by thousands in the vault of space. The 

 relation here, as far as reason can compass objects 

 thus vast, is that of a Unity of Creative Power. 



All this evidence comes from the universe without. 

 That derived from our own globe, though different in 

 the scale of the objects and actions concerned, is not 

 less conclusive. In its most general form (that which 

 we are now seeking to obtain) we find this evidence in 

 the mutual and uniform relations of the different kinds 

 of matter on the earth relations inter se, as well as to 

 those elemental forces of Heat, Light, Electricity, Gra- 

 vitation, &c. ever acting around or within them, under 

 precise laws and with mutual and constant equivalence 

 of effects. The! whole series of chemical phenomena, 

 and especially of organic chemistry, as construed by the 

 atomic theory and the law of definite proportions, 

 gives continuous and complete proof of the Unity of 

 the scheme, complex though it be, to which these 

 actions belong. One original source of power can 

 alone be concerned in effects so perfectly congruous 

 and co-ordinate. The farther we advance in the 

 science of molecular physics, the wider becomes the 

 scope of the evidence which retains its constancy, even 

 when thus derived from the most secret recesses of the 

 natural world. 



The argument for Unity is the same when we look 



