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gressive, organic beings, just as he did in working out 

 the problems of art. 



In this way — and illustrations may be multiplied in- 

 definitely — does man gradually accumulate probabilities 

 arising from the number of evidences between the work- 

 ing's of his own mind and what he sees in Nature, that 

 the power behind Nature is gradually forced upon him, 

 as a Being who is conscious as himself, and that it is Go/:^ 

 who must be the source of the Directivity so apparent 

 in all beings that are alive. 



On the other hand, the stronger this impression grows 

 upon him, the more incompatible does it become to 

 identify this Power with " blind forces " acting by fixed 

 laws unchangeable in their effects ; as is apparent in the 

 workings of all purely physical forces in the inorganic 

 world. 



