72 The Evolution Hypothesis. 



endowed with life and sensation, and of man possessed 

 of self-conscious intelligence and a moral nature. 

 The knowledge of God stands apart : it is the answer 

 of mind to the Supreme Mind as His thought touches 

 ours in the intelligible in the universe, or speaks to 

 us in immediate revelation. The other departments 

 of knowledge are at once combined and separate 

 combined in the operation of certain laws common to 

 the whole ; and separate in having each a system of 

 laws peculiar to itself alone. The laws that run 

 throughout the whole field are the mechanical laws 

 of inorganic matter. Wherever we are able to subject 

 matter to the scrutiny of science, we discover similar 

 modes of action. The same kind of matter is the 

 same in behaviour everywhere ; our language implies 

 this fact when we speak of it as of the same kind. 

 If matter is ponderable, it will be found so whether in 

 Saturn or in the brain. 



Dynamic law is universal so far as the universe of 

 material forces reaches. In so far as matter, however 

 widely separated by distance in space, is the same 

 kind of matter, its behaviour W 7 ill be the same ; it will 

 be found subject to the same dynamic law. That 

 matter should be continuous that is, that matter 

 should in all its visible forms, and in its modes that 

 lie deeper than observations can reach, be essentially 

 one in kind, and that it should pervade all cosmic 

 space though wholly unprovable seems a probable 

 hypothesis. Over all that reach its law will be the 



