Analytical Outline of Contents, xv 



XVIII. Dr. Elam's exposure of his Chemistry. 



" Proiessor Huxley's ' Chemistry of 

 Life ' has no foundation except that 

 ot deliberate and reiterated assertion." 

 XIX. "Exoretuo." 



" That such verbal hocus-pocus should be re- 

 ceived as science will one day be regarded as 

 evidence ot the low state of intelligence in the 

 nineteenth .century." 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE THREE BEGINNINGS. 



Evolution not Eternal. 



The "First Beginnings (Lucretius). 

 Importance of the Fact : 



There was " a first start " 



There was more than one. 



1. i. MATTER. 



How ? Where ? Whence ? did it Begin 

 Its Nature 

 Its Properties 

 Its Powers 



From what Source acquired? 



" In the Beginning ? " 

 "The Atoms eternally falling." 



Why "tailing?" 



In an eternity "not eternal. 

 What Force was that which moved them ? 

 What Will was that which directed them ? 



2. Force : 



Operating in a given Order : and 

 Controlled by " Definite Laws." 

 ORDER : FORCE : LAW : 



How came they to Begin ? 



3. *' Mutual Interaction : 



Of the molecules of the Primitive Nebulosity " 

 The sole and exclusive cause of "the whole world ; 

 living and not living." 



