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Crete being embracing under that one term God, the 

 soul, and the world. But when the conception is 

 enlarged so as to correspond with reality, it becomes 

 worthless to the evolutionist, and is discarded. 



6. To produce the cosmos that is, and as it is, there 

 is needed one other datum. A determinate extent and 

 relation of parts in its primal state must be given, or a 

 wholly different cosmos must have evolved. Inasmuch 

 as the existing cosmos is, on the evolution hypothesis, 

 limited by necessity to the original homogeneity, 

 there must have been a special form and collocation 

 of the diffused mass, and a special fixed quantity 

 of motion distributed in a determinate manner to pro- 

 duce, in the operation of dynamic law, the known 

 result. For the present cosmos is not the only 

 form conceivable the possible variations are infinite. 

 Nothing can be clearer than that this primordial 

 arrangement must be postulated by the evolution 

 hypothesis : without it the cosmos as it is could not 

 have arisen. The most trifling shade of difference 

 the oscillation of a molecule in the least degree more 

 or less the position, by a hair's breadth on one side 

 or on the other, of the line marking the heterogeneity 

 of part from part would, in the lapse of inconceivable 

 periods of change, have wrought out incalcuable differ- 

 ences of result. Any other imaginable condition and 

 collocation of matter, and these are infinite, and any 

 greater or less amount of motion, would have produced 

 a universe wholly different from that we see. The 



