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sicist Balfour Stewart has well named it, of the 

 power of the universe. Into this " waste-heap " all 

 the active energies in the world of sense seem to be 

 continually vanishing, and to be destined at last to 

 vanish utterly. Under the light of this principle of 

 dissipation, we shift from a primal energy immanent 

 but not transcendent to one immanent in the sum 

 of the correlated actual motions and also transcen- 

 dent of them. Very impressive is the view that 

 here arises of a dread Source of Being that engulfs 

 all beings. It is Brahm again, issuing forth through 

 its triad, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, — creation, preser- 

 vation, annihilation, — to return at last into its own 

 void, gathering with it the sum of all its transitory 

 modes. And let us not forget that the conceptions 

 out of which this image of the One-and-All is spon- 

 taneously generated are the ascertained and settled 

 results of the science of Nature in its exactest em- 

 pirical form. 



When to this powerful impression from the princi- 

 ple of conservation, as modified by that of dissipation, 

 we now add the proper effect of the principle of 

 evolution, the pantheistic inference appears to gather 

 an overpowering weight, in no way to be evaded. 

 As registered in terms of a rigorous empirical 

 method, evolution presents the picture of a cosmic 

 Whole, constituted of varying members descended 

 from its own primitive form by differentiations so 



