CHAPTER XI 

 A FINAL WORD 



THE foregoing chapters contain only the merest 

 outline of the great principles of universal 

 evolution. Each chapter could be elaborated 

 into a volume of facts of current events, in 

 proof of the principles. But, in a popular treatise of 

 the subject, space will not permit. It will be well, how- 

 ever, to succinctly retrace or summarize the argument 

 in as brief space as possible. 



In the universe of phenomena there are only two 

 phases self and not-self. The perceiver, and the objec- 

 tive phenomena perceived, are the fundamental aspects 

 of one great truth, the integration and dissipation of 

 some thing, which, for a better definition, we divide 

 into two aspects, called matter and motion. But scien- 

 tists are fast concluding that they are one in reality, 

 and that one is motion. The hypothesis has been for- 

 mulated, that whatever this oneness of matter and 

 motion may be, it probably had no origin, and that, 

 in its primitive state it was in the form of nebulae of 

 attenuated gas, from which, by the laws of energy, the 

 present solar system, and all systems in the universe 

 have been evolved. The original nebulae were com- 

 posed of atoms which are mere centers of energy. 

 The fundamental property of these centers of energy, 

 is condensation. 



Hence, the condensation of the nebulous matter into 

 the globes, now moving in space, and all the phe- 

 nomena, thence resulting, have been simply the opera- 

 tion of a principle, immanent in the matter itself. The 



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