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march as if to music. They spring into their own places 

 with unfailing accuracy, find and lay hold of their related 

 molecules, and moulding and fashioning them according 

 to their will, build up structures the most complex and 

 beating with the pulses of life. The unity of action and 

 greatness of mind revealed in their action is exceeding 

 wonderful. And not being in and of themselves, it must 

 be on and from outside of them. The atoms must be 

 made by mind for their work. They are formed and 

 measured in their every characteristic with matchless 

 accuracy. The samenesses in them are of extraordinary 

 fineness and richness. The potencies enabling them to 

 build up and put together the many parts of the proto- 

 plasmic machine are marvellous in the highest degree, 

 and must have in them balancings of forces and adjust- 

 ments to the other kinds of molecules of the most 

 exquisite nature. The potencies that enable them in the 

 protoplasmic forms to give birth to the springs of life 

 place them far in front of and above other atoms, make 

 them the chiefest glory of a transcend ently glorious 

 universe. The collocation therefore in centres so small, 

 in numbers so vast, of the same measured powers, so 

 peculiar and so high, forms an evidence of the presence 

 and action of mind of overwhelming force. Atoms 

 having in them not only the power of combining with 

 other atoms, but also the amazing properties that enable 

 them to build up protoplasmic structures, and originate 

 in them the throbbings of vitality, cannot but have their 

 existence due to one glorious mind, who knew what was 

 being produced in each atom, who understood the great 

 and ordered work required of it, and what was necessary 

 to be put into it, in order that it might be equal to its 

 performance. 



It follows that its colleague elements were made for it 



