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ciple of progress ; we are bound to take notice of this 

 order, and look for that in the cause which will account 

 for this universally operative principle of adaptation. 



The adaptation of mind to that world in which it 

 dwells and of which it has knowledge, is the most 

 wonderful of all adjustments. The most significant of 

 .all the characteristics of the universe, is the existence 

 in it of that which answers to intelligence. The possi- 

 bility of nature being thought involves the implication 

 that there is thought in it. Mind answers to the mani- 

 festation of mind. The intelligible in the cosmos leads 

 irresistibly to the recognition of an intelligent author. 



The existence of a conscious ego knowing self and 

 the environment of self cannot be a product of the 

 Unconscious. Nothing comes of nothing ; there is no 

 more in the effect than there was in the cause. If it 

 be given me to say " / am," I cannot but believe that 

 the great First Cause can also say, " I AM." 



But if the Primal Cause be a self-conscious Intelli- 

 gence, His I AM differences Him from human intelli- 

 gence ; as my / am differences me from Him. His 

 intelligence is not one with the intelligence of man. 

 My intelligence is a form of being face to face with 

 the Infinite Intelligence. I am not enclosed in the 

 Divine Being. God is not all things, for He is not 

 This I. The First Cause and the cosmos are not one 

 throughout. If they are not one throughout, there is 

 no ground to suppose that they are one at any point 

 in immensity. We cannot identify the world with 



