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Mr. Ruskin, on The Great First Cause 



"Personal": and " A Supporting Spirit in all 



things." 



The Formative Cause. 

 The Living Power. 

 What is it ? and Whence / 

 "There is no answer." 

 Ascensive Life. 

 Language : Peculiar to Man : 



"Thinker of God's thoughts after Him." 

 What is the Origin of Mind ? 

 The genesis of THOUGHT. 



" Thaumaturgic." (Carlyle.) 

 " No mere function of The Brain." 

 " A World by itself." 

 VOLITION. Whence ? 



A machine not mechanical. 

 " An automaton endowed with free will." 

 CONSCIOUSNESS. 



"A rock on which Materialism must inevitably 



split." (Tyndall.) 



Perfectly " unaccountable." (Huxley.) 

 " Brain-waves." (Ruskin.) 

 SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY. 



" Duty I ... WHENCE THY ORIGINAL? 



(Kant.) 



THE MAJESTIC SPECTACLE OF THE UNIVERSE 

 Is a spectacle for the eye of Reason. 

 Natural Agents working for ends which they them" 



selves cannot perceive. 



But ' ' Every house is builded by some man " \ 

 And 



f HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS, IS GOD." 



