29 Anima Mundi. 



diagram of mathematic. That majestic spec- 

 tacle could have been constructed, was con- 

 structed, only in reason, for reason, and by 

 reason. From beyond Orion and the Pleiades, 

 across the green hem of earth, up to the im- 

 perial personality of man, all, the furthest, the 

 deadest, the dustiest, is for fusion in the invisible 

 point of the single Ego which alone glorifies it. 

 For the subject, and on the model of the subject, 

 all is made." * 



" But the stone doth not deliberate whether 

 it shall descend, nor the wheat take counsel 

 whether or not it shall grow. Even men dc 

 not advise how their hearts shall beat, though 

 without that pulse they cannot live. What then 

 can be more clear than that those natural agents 

 which work constantly, for tliose ends which they 

 themselves cannot perceive, must be directed by 

 some high and over-ruling wisdom, and who is 

 that but the great Artificer who works in all of 

 them ? . . . For, as ' every house is builded 

 by some man,' and the earth bears no such 

 creature of itself; stones do not grow into a wall, 

 or first hew and square, then unite and fasten 

 themselves together ; trees sprout not cross 

 like dry and sapless beams, nor spars and tiles 



1 " As Regards Protoplasm," p. 37. 



