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microscopic organism, or any unfamiliar 

 animal, but to make use of our own 

 experience as living beings. Any positive 

 instance serves to stem a comprehensive 

 denial; and if the reality of mind and 

 guidance and plan is denied because they 

 make no appeal to sense, then think how 

 the world would appear to an observer to 

 whom the existence of men was unknown 

 and undiscoverable, while yet all laws 

 and activities of nature went on as they 

 do now. 



Suppose, then, that man made no 

 appeal to the senses of an observer of this 

 planet. Suppose an outside observer 

 could see all the events occurring in the 

 world, save only that he could not see 

 animals or men. He would describe 

 what he saw much as we have to describe 

 the activities initiated by life. 



If he looked at the Firth of Forth, for 

 instance, he would see piers arising in 

 the water, beginning to sprout, reaching 

 across in strange manner till they actually 

 join or are joined by pieces attracted 

 up from below to complete the circuit (a 



