xvi Analytical Outline of Contents. 



When these assumptions have been granted : 



That the Nebulosity was real 



That it was Primitive 



That its constitutent molecules were not all imaginary 



That the existing world is the result of their interaction 

 Then, the first question is more urgent than before : 

 " In The Beginning : " What was that 



4. First Cause : 



Equal, not only to the 

 Origination of Matter and of Force, but 

 Equal also to the 



Origination of Matter thus constituted, and of 

 Force thus adjusted ? 



5. Evolution : is thus seen to be the measure of 



Involution. 



Whatever has been evolved in the Effect 



Was previously involved in the Cause. 



6. Causa Causarum : What was that ? 



In " The First Beginning " ? 

 II. LIFE. 



" Of the causes which have led to the origina- 

 tion of living matter, it may be said that we 

 know absolutely nothing." (Huxley) 

 But, however inscrutable the mode, 

 There is no question, nor any room for question 



As to the Fact : 



. " Living matter " was " once originated." 

 Life had a BEGINNING. 



Still more inscrutable is the Mystery which 

 shrouds 



The First Emergence of 

 III THE SELF-CONSCIOUS MIND. 



Mr. J. S. Mill on the Existence of Mind. 



Huxley, Tyndall, and Spencer, on "States of 

 Consciousness." 



"Consciousness," says Prof. Huxley, is "un- 

 accountable." 



*' No one can prove that mind and life are in any 

 way related to chemistry and mechanics." 



