I20 From Matter to Man. 



Section 4. Form : 



From the context it will now be realised that form 

 eternally exists in nature. Form is a necessity of 

 the mere existence of atoms having form. As nature 

 thus works with material inherently possessed of 

 form, her difficulty in evolution would be, not to 

 produce something with form, but something without 

 form. Hence natural forms are necessary and illimit- 

 able, for the mere mixture and aggregation of sub- 

 stances possessed of seventy different forms, would, 

 like a natural kaleidoscope, produce crystalline designs 

 innumerable. 



Section 5. Design : 



While the simplest mineral forms, such as the 

 crystals, are produced solely by accretion ; the snow- 

 flakes, frost-ferns, lead trees, and snow-shrubs are 

 complex designs, produced by the great natural 

 designing law Polarity. The omnipresence of design 

 in nature has long been one of the great arguments 

 of the ignorant in favour of the Divine creation of the 

 universe. " Design," they say, " involves a Designer." 

 This may be true enough but it does not involve a 

 Deity. Design certainly involves a cause of design, 

 but this cause as we have shown is a mere law. 



Design, moreover, is a term coined by man to 

 signify a certain order or arrangement of forms. 

 But this order may arise quite unintentionally on 

 the part of the agents concerned : a point over- 

 looked. Thus the dropping of water on a basket on 



