276 Anima Mundi. 



us " ? Who originated Motion ? Where is the 

 primal Force ? 



" We will assume that science has done its 

 utmost ; and that every chemical or animal 

 force is demonstrably resolvable into heat or 

 motion, reciprocally changing into each other. 

 I would myself like better, in order of thought, 

 to consider motion as a mode of heat than heat 

 as a mode of motion : still, granting that we 

 have got thus far, we have yet to ask, What is 

 heat ? or what motion ? What is this ' primo 

 mobile,' this transitional power, in which all 

 things live,, and move, and have their being ? 

 It is by definition something different from 

 matter, and we may call it as we choose ' firs* 

 cause,' or ' first light, or ' first heat ' , but w<" 

 can show no scientific proof of its not bein 

 personal, and coinciding with the ordinary con- 

 ception of a supporting spirit in all things." 1 



M The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, 

 Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. 

 Nature is but a name for an effect, 

 Whose cause is God." 



With Him is the breath of Life. With Him is 

 the secret of Power. This is what men of 

 science " are finding more and more, below their 



1 "The Queen of the Air:" by John Ruskin, LL.D. 

 (1869), p. 74. 



