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CONCLUSION 



Material Elements ordered not by Necessity, not by Chance, but 

 by Mind Primal Elements ordered Made and Created All 

 Things ordered by Infinite Power and Wisdom. 



WE shall now endeavour to show to what the whole 

 matter tends, to what conclusion it leads us. For this 

 purpose we observe That matter and its properties 

 cannot have necessity as the ground of their being. 



The number of the atoms of each element is enormous. 

 There are billions of them within the smallest space. In 

 the universe there are worlds of them. But within, say, 

 our sun's system, there must be a finite and definite 

 number of each kind. There must be x atoms of oxygen, 

 y of carbon, z, a, b, c of other substances. It cannot, we 

 say, be of absolute necessity that of oxygen the number 

 x should be found in the space supposed, of absolute 

 necessity that there should have been neither more nor 

 less. It cannot be of absolute necessity that of carbon 

 there should be found the number ?/, and of other sub- 

 stances the number z, a, b, c, d. No sane mind can for a 

 moment imagine that from the nature of things it was 

 an eternal necessity that the seventy, or thereby, different 

 kinds of atoms, should all exist, or be formed in the 

 numbers, and proportion of numbers, in which they help 

 to form our great system obeying the orb of day. 



When also we consider the atoms as they are, and the 



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