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have evolved themselves into a glorious universe. Inert 

 matter, empty of potency, could not have become a 

 fountain of power. Atoms without likeness or relation- 

 ship, atoms without the atomic nature, could not have 

 developed into chemical combinations. It is because in 

 the world we are face to face with matter in an ordered 

 condition, with vast amounts of the same and of various 

 kinds, with those amounts marvellously characterised by 

 relationships, endowed with wonderful powers mingled 

 together, and everywhere as of themselves bringing their 

 powers into play, that anyone has been able to imagine 

 that the world is self-evolved. 



By mere arrangement of materials mind could not have 

 evolved a kosmos out of a chaos, or brought order out 

 of disorder. No human mind, though possessed of the 

 most brilliant genius, though endowed with the mightiest 

 power of arrangement, could form the simplest instrument 

 without materials suitable for the purpose. If then we 

 ascribe to the mind which built up the universe, not an 

 infinite and creative power, but only the power of 

 arranging materials, it is evident that out of no chaos, out 

 of no realm knowing only disorder, could He have called 

 it forth. By arrangement only the order that exists can 

 be made to show itself. For arrangement there must be 

 substances capable of being arranged, needing only collo- 

 cation to produce the results. Who can produce order 

 where order there is none 1 Out of an element void of 

 any quality, who can make that quality to spring ? Out 

 of any entity who can bring that which is not already in 

 its nature 1 No finite mind can by arrangement do these 

 things. 



The primal particles are the work of mind. Whatever 

 may have been the primal condition of matter, whatso- 

 ever supposition we may form as of fluidity, or any mode 



