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ful that it is as impossible for such an account of them 

 to cling to a sane mind, and sting it with doubt, as for a 

 wasp to live in the hottest flames of the sun. They can 

 only be ascribed to mind. Every atom has on it not 

 one but many marks of being artificially made, is a gem 

 flashing in every facet with the light of intelligence. 



The size of the atoms is of course relative. Let us 

 magnify them to a clearly visible size and represent their 

 qualities by visible characteristics. Let the atoms be 

 likened to cubes and let the sides, coloured differently, 

 represent the various qualities. If then you were to 

 come upon a few such similar cubes, there would be no 

 hesitation in concluding that they had been made by an 

 intelligent hand. But if, side by side with them, you 

 met with others differing in size and shape and colours 

 from those of your first discovery, but exactly resembling 

 each other, you would feel that your conviction was, if 

 possible, strengthened. But if you found not two nor 

 three, but fifty, sixty, or seventy, cluster differing from 

 cluster, but all the atoms of each cluster the same, you 

 could not but feel the evidence for their being manu- 

 factured overwhelming. And this is what we find in the 

 universe. In it we have seventy different clusters of 

 snormous size. How vast a space would all the atoms 

 of oxygen in the worlds within view of man's aided eye 

 occupy ! Hydrogen and nitrogen and carbon would each 

 form a globe of immense magnitude. Each and every 

 element would also do so. If the eye could be aided to 

 see them clearly, and to perceive their form and various 

 properties, the mind could not resist the conviction that 

 they are made. 



Stones and wood disposed so as to form a graceful, 

 convenient, and comfortable building, show the mind and 

 hand of an architect and builder. But the stones them- 



