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repeated. A change will always be taking place. It 

 it always a becoming, that will never be finished. It 

 is well that it is so. If it were not well, the flux would 

 cease, and a static condition, in which no change would 

 occur would take its place. A mere statement of the 

 two conditions shows how much more desirable the 

 movement is, than the immutable would be. Our own 

 lives are typical of the flow of reality. Life is an 

 expectation, a reaching out, for something that is never 

 so tightly grasped as to be held; it is an effort, which 

 must satisfy us, because it really accomplishes that 

 which it should accomplish, but does not accomplish 

 that which we think it should. Our expectations are 

 not quite in harmony with the becoming apparent in 

 nature, but the becoming continues without reference 

 to our expectations, and we are kept within the flux 

 of things by a satisfaction, brought to our limited in- 

 tellects, by the little round of organic functions, vouch- 

 safed to us by nature. Our bodies are in the flux, 

 while we are really unconscious of the cosmic move- 

 ment. It is our glory, that we are part of nature and 

 reality. We could not survive, as beings, if we lost 

 touch with them for a moment. Our present, and ulti- 

 mate fate depends upon this connection. We, and the 

 universe, have one origin, and one destiny. Human 

 organisms cannot be taken out of the general flow of 

 reality, and subjected to a capricious, arbitrary, sepa- 

 rate philosophy. 



CREATION. There is creation, in one sense, but not 

 out of nothing, it is out of something. This crea- 

 tion is an evolution of forms, by the rhythm of motion, 

 and the laws of energy. These forms are never com- 

 pleted, they are constantly changing to other forms, 

 and these to still others. This is the flux of reality, 



