8 From Matter to Man. 



constitution, or accord even probability to man's 

 peevish whine for immortality. What then, by uni- 

 versal time-dials, shall the duration of our earth's life 

 history be, in its transition from chaos to chaos, but 

 as the blowing and bursting of a planetary bubble in 

 the cauldron of eternity ? 



As non-existence, non-manifested existence, motion 

 without matter and matter without motion, are all 

 contrary to reality, as well as impossible in fact 

 and inconceivable in imagination, as beginnings to 

 existence, no absolute origin of, or beginning to, 

 existence is or was possible. All is a vast, imper- 

 sonal, yet pregnant now, beginning and ending 

 momently. The eternal is begotten matutinally in 

 every sunrise, and buried nightly in every sunset : 

 its midwife and undertaker itself. 



