146 THE CREATION OF MATTER 



innumerable perceiving natures, makes it impossible not 

 to conclude that they were made for each other. It is 

 impossible without skill to play on the simplest instru- 

 ment. It is impossible for ignorance and chance and 

 hands unpractised to do justice to a grand organ, so to 

 govern its stops, strike its keys, and command its har- 

 monies, as to captivate and delight cultivated listeners. 

 And yet this is an easy achievement compared with the 

 fitting of perceived natures to the perceiving, of so order- 

 ing the ether and multitudinous molecules of matter, 

 that they should unite to govern its stops, strike its keys, 

 command its harmonies, and produce in it the vastest 

 variety of sensations; yea, that the earth and all that 

 therein is, the ether and sun and moon and stars, should, 

 as consummate artists, in all their hosts of particles and 

 parts, unite to act upon perceiving natures without 

 number, and fill the earth with the music of their 

 working. 



